A Longitudinal Assessment of Hearing Loss in the World Trade Center General Responder Cohort.

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• Alternative Title:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2025, v. 67, no. 9: A Longitudinal Assessment of Hearing Loss in the World Trade Center General Responder Cohort.
• Journal Article:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Personal Author:
  Sloan, Nancy L. ; Dasaro, Christopher R. ; Shapiro, Moshe Z. ; Sacks, Henry S. ; Udasin, Iris G. ; Moline, Jacqueline M. ; Luft, Benjamin J. ; Harrison, Denise J. ; Crane, Michael A. ; Todd, Andrew C. ; Teitelbaum, Susan L.
• Description:
  In analyses without adjustment for World Trade Center (WTC) noise exposure, people with WTC and neighborhood exposures from the September 11, 2001, attacks have experienced slightly elevated risks of hearing loss. We investigated incident hearing loss in the WTC General Responder Cohort by their levels of WTC exposure, their WTC noise exposure and previous occupation.
  
  Adjusted multivariable log binomial regression models assessed persistent (≥10 months) hearing loss associated with WTC exposures using 22 years of the monitoring visit data ( n = 45,537).
  
  Compared with the lowest exposure level without WTC noise exposure, WTC noise exposure increased hearing loss risk (adjusted relative risk range: 1.19 95% confidence interval 1.08, 1.30 to 1.58 1.43, 1.76).
  
  The results clarify the importance of WTC noise when evaluating the associations of WTC exposures on hearing loss.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks
  • Male
  • Female
  • Adult
  • Middle Aged
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Emergency Responders
  More +
• Keywords:
  • hearing loss
  • tinnitus
  • ear pain
  • World Trade Center
  • general responder cohort
• Source:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2025, v. 67, no. 9
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003428
• ISSN:
  1076-2752 ; 1536-5948
• Pubmed ID:
  40309906
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12757932
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  HHSD200201139377C/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; HHSD200200200384C/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; HHSD200201793325C/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U10 OH008216/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; HHSD200201139356C/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York City
• Pages in Document:
  747-756 (30 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261447/cdc_261447_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 655.93 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:db96384d0ab2377bfdd426ccd0805947f94730fb65ae1ee648e425c7405a63a666a1e5c3379c5c8425930b4e845fb721916df732f2d71311829d69df730b130f