Correlation between blood pressure trajectory and hearing threshold among workers exposed to occupational noise in a city's rail transit enterprise

• Published in: Huan jing yu zhi ye yi xue = Journal of environmental & occupational medicine Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 724 - 731
• Main Authors: Zhan, Hongting, Wang, Qia, Chen, Xinmei, Liang, Zhiping, Li, Cong, Cao, Danyan, Yang, Aichu, Xiao, Minghui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: Shanghai Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control and Prevention 2025; Editorial Committee of Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
• Subjects: Age; Background noise; Blood levels; Blood pressure; Chi-square test; Ear protection; Exposure; group-based trajectory model; Hearing loss; Hearing protection; Hypertension; Mean; Median (statistics); Noise; Occupational exposure; Populations; rail transit; Statistical models; Subgroups; Thresholds; Urban rail; Variance analysis

Background Hypertension is one of the chronic diseases with the highest prevalence in China, and a history of hypertension may potentially exacerbate hearing loss. Investigating the association between long-term blood pressure trends and hearing thresholds could contribute to hearing protection effo...