Hearing Impairment among Older Construction Workers: Hearing impairment and tinnitus among older construction workers employed at DOE facilities

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Hearing impairment and tinnitus among older construction workers employed at DOE facilities
  
  Knut Ringen, John M. Dement, Patricia Quinn, Marianne Cloeren, Anna Chen, Kim Cranford, Scott Haas. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, May 2022.
  
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine, May 2022.
  
  Occupational hearing loss is the most common work-related illness in the U.S. and can lead to anxiety and an overall loss in quality of life. Workers in the construction industry frequently experience excessive noise on the job and are among the workers most likely to suffer noise-induced hearing loss, as well as tinnitus. However, few studies have looked at the risk of hearing loss after retirement for construction workers. This research measured hearing impairment and tinnitus prevalence among older construction workers, including retirees, by examining data from more than 21,000 participants in the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed). BTMed provides medical screening exams to construction workers formerly employed at Department of Energy nuclear weapons sites, who may be at increased risk for occupational illnesses. The researchers gathered audiometric data from BTMed participants, as well as self-reports of tinnitus, and analyzed the prevalence of hearing impairments by job category, sex, and age.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Audiometry Construction Industry Female Hearing Loss/epidemiology Humans Male Prevalence Self Report Tinnitus/diagnosis
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  production of this document was supported by cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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