Hearing Asymmetry Among Occupationally Noise-Exposed Men and Women Under 60 Years of Age
| Autor: | H. Karjalainen, Katariina Jounio-Ervasti, Tapio Pirilä, Martti Sorri, Pckka Sipilä |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Absolute threshold of hearing Hearing loss Auditory Threshold Middle Aged Audiology Functional Laterality Noise Sex Factors Hearing Loss Noise-Induced Otorhinolaryngology Sex factors Noise Occupational otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Male population Female Acoustic trauma sense organs medicine.symptom Psychology Female population |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Audiology. 20:217-222 |
| ISSN: | 0105-0397 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/01050399109045966 |
| Popis: | Interaural asymmetry of hearing thresholds at 4 kHz was analysed in four populations exposed to occupational noise. The left ear was found to be on average significantly worse than the right ear, among both the male and female subjects. In the male population the left ear was twice as often the worse ear as the right one. In the female population the corresponding ratio was 1.5. The average inferiority of the left ear increased as a function of the hearing threshold level. Among subjects with abundant shooting (reindeer herders) the average inferiority of the left ear was close to the average of all male subjects. Interaural difference increased as a function of the hearing threshold level, both among subjects with the left ear and subjects with the right ear being the worse one. In the male population the interaural difference was significantly greater in the former than in the latter group of subjects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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