TITLE:
A cross-sectional study on the effects of occupational noise exposure on hypertension or cardiovascular among workers from automobile manufacturing company of Chongqing, China
AUTHORS:
Shuai Wang, Qizhong Qin, Lu Liu, Lingli Han, Yu Chen
KEYWORDS:
Occupational Noise; Hypertension; Impaired Hearing; Automobile Manufacturing Company; Health Examination
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering,
Vol.6 No.12,
December
20,
2013
ABSTRACT:
For
the past few years, noise pollution has been more and more serious, and it may
lead to several diseases. While the humans expose to noise in quantity for a
long time, their blood pressure will change, and even cause changes in cardiac
function. In our study, we attempt to find the relationship between
occupational noise and hypertension and impaired hearing, cardiac function. It
may be helpful to obtain some useful information on occupational noise exposure
of humans. The participants were divided into noisy group ≥90 dB (A) and
non-noisy group ≤70 dB (A). We performed this research in an automobile manufacturing
company of Chongqing, China during 2011-2012. Our study showed that there may
be positive associations betweenoccupational noise and hypertension and impaired hearing,
but no conclusion can be drawn between occupational noise and ECG.