Occupational Noise Exposure and Risk of Hypertension in an Industrial Workforce

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Ind Med
• Personal Author:
  Tessier-Sherman, Baylah ; Galusha, Deron ; Cantley, Linda F ; Cullen, Mark R ; Rabinowitz, Peter M ; Neitzel, Richard L
• Description:
  Background ; Community noise exposure has been shown to increase the risk of hypertension; however, the relationship between occupational noise exposure and hypertension is less clear. ; Methods ; Using an inception cohort of workers in a specialty metals manufacturing company, we retrospectively assessed occupational noise exposure, hearing acuity, and incident hypertension diagnoses using administrative datasets. Time-weighted average noise exposure levels were assigned to employees based on their job histories. Cox proportional hazards models were performed to determine the association of noise exposure with risk of incident hypertension. ; Results ; The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of incident hypertension did not significantly differ between groups by cumulative continuous or categorized noise exposure metric. ; Conclusion ; We found no increased risk of incident hypertension with exposure to occupational noise among workers. Further assessment examining workers’ use of hearing protection devices is warranted.
• Keywords:
  • occupational noise
  • noise exposure
  • workplace health
  • hypertension
  • occupational health and safety
  • Adult
  • Audiometry, Pure-Tone
  • Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
  • Humans
  • Hypertension
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• Source:
  Am J Ind Med. 60(12):1031-1038
• Pubmed ID:
  28940215
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5690872
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 AG026291/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH010132/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  60
• Issue:
  12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49857/cdc_49857_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 395.16 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4e90a6e32e8c5c367fba075a11983382dea8590fcc2c5458d16d2aed03cc4a94