A Longitudinal Assessment of Hearing Loss in the World Trade Center General Responder Cohort.
prospective_cohort · Level II
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 40309906.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003428 and PMC identifier 12757932.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
- Occupational Exposure
- Emergency Responders
- Hearing Loss
- Occupational Diseases