A Quantitative Analysis of Kurtosis Impact on Occupational Complex Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

Background: Workers in industry settings are often exposed to complex noise, which poses a greater risk to hearing loss than continuous noise at equivalent energy levels. Previous studies have identified kurtosis as an essential metric for evaluating complex noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). This study aimed to characterize the distribution of workers exposed to complex noise, examine the associations between kurtosis and changes in hearing thresholds at various frequencies, and explore kurtosis's role in estimating NIHL and its integration into occupational hearing loss prevention programs.

Prevalence of Ototoxic Chemical Exposure, Noise Exposure and Hearing Difficulty Among Workers in the United States, 2023.

Objective: This study estimated the prevalence of hearing difficulty and workplace exposures to ototoxic chemicals and noise within U.S. industries and occupations.

Prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed U.S. workers within the Construction sector, 2010-2019.

Background: The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed U.S. workers during 2010-2019 within the Construction sector.

Hearing threshold quartiles from the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.

This report extends the development of normative standards for estimating occupational hearing loss using data from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. A proposed revision of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 1999:2013 standard ("Acoustics-Estimation on noise-induced hearing loss") uses a linear interpolation of hearing threshold data to estimate the 25th and 75th percentiles for men and women at 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, and 8000 Hz. This paper revisits the NHANES data to provide these estimates, avoiding other types of interpolations that could misrepresent the population data.

Prevalence of Hearing Loss Among Noise-Exposed US Workers Within the Utilities Sector, 2010-2019.

Objective: This study's objective was to estimate hearing loss prevalence for noise-exposed US Utilities workers.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study of a retrospective cohort, audiograms were examined for 1.3 million workers (13,595 within utilities) from 2010-2019.

Preventing Occupational Hearing Loss: 50 Years of Research and Recommendations from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

For more than 50 years, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been actively working to reduce the effects of noise and ototoxic chemicals on worker hearing.

Safe Listening at Venues and Events with Amplified Music - United States, 2022.

Nearly one in four (24.4%) U.S.

Prevalence of hearing protection device non-use among noise-exposed US workers in 2007 and 2014.

Background: This study estimated the prevalence of hearing protection device (HPD) non-use among US workers exposed to hazardous workplace noise and provided risk estimates.

Methods: Self-reported data from the National Health Interview Survey in 2007 (15,852 workers) and 2014 (23,656 workers) were examined. Weighted prevalence and adjusted prevalence ratios of HPD non-use (using HPDs half the time or less when exposed to hazardous noise) were estimated by demographic, industry, and occupation.

Prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed workers within the services sector, 2006-2015.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed U.S. workers within the Services sector.

Population-based age adjustment tables for use in occupational hearing conservation programs.

In occupational hearing conservation programmes, age adjustments may be used to subtract expected age effects. Adjustments used in the U.S.

Occupational noise exposure: A review of its effects, epidemiology, and impact with recommendations for reducing its burden.

Exposure to hazardous noise is one of the most common occupational risks, both in the U.S. and worldwide.

Kids Nowadays Hear Better Than We Did: Declining Prevalence of Hearing Loss in US Youth, 1966-2010.

Objectives/hypothesis: To investigate factors associated with hearing impairment (HI) in adolescent youths during the period 1966-2010.

Study Design: Cross-sectional analyses of US sociodemographic, health, and audiometric data spanning 5 decades.

Methods: Subjects were youths aged 12 to 17 years who participated in the National Health Examination Survey (NHES Cycle 3, 1966-1970; n = 6,768) and youths aged 12 to 19 years in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1994; n = 3,057) and NHANES (2005-2010; n = 4,374).

Hearing Disability Prevalence and Risk Factors in Two Recent National Surveys.

Introduction: Hearing loss is a worldwide societal and public health concern. Globally, disabling hearing loss affects 538 million adults (men, 12.2%; women, 9.

Cardiovascular conditions, hearing difficulty, and occupational noise exposure within US industries and occupations.

Background: The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of occupational noise exposure, hearing difficulty and cardiovascular conditions within US industries and occupations, and to examine any associations of these outcomes with occupational noise exposure.

Methods: National Health Interview Survey data from 2014 were examined. Weighted prevalence and adjusted prevalence ratios of self-reported hearing difficulty, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, and coronary heart disease or stroke were estimated by level of occupational noise exposure, industry, and occupation.

Acoustic reflexes are common but not pervasive: evidence using a diagnostic middle ear analyser.

Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether acoustic reflexes are pervasive (i.e. known with 95% confidence to be observed in at least 95% of people) by examining the frequency of occurrence using a friction-fit diagnostic middle ear analyser.

Prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed workers within the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting sector, 2003-2012.

Background: The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among noise-exposed US workers within the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting (AFFH) sector.

Methods: Audiograms for 1.4 million workers (17 299 within AFFH) from 2003 to 2012 were examined.

Prevalence of Hearing Loss Among Noise-Exposed Workers Within the Health Care and Social Assistance Sector, 2003 to 2012.

Objective: The purpose was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss for noise-exposed U.S. workers within the Health Care and Social Assistance (HSA) sector.

Vital Signs: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Among Adults - United States 2011-2012.

Introduction: The 2016 National Academies of Sciences report "Hearing Health Care for Adults: Priorities for Improving Access and Affordability" included a call to action for government agencies to strengthen efforts to collect, analyze, and disseminate population-based data on hearing loss in adults.

Methods: CDC analyzed the most recent available data collected both by questionnaire and audiometric tests of adult participants aged 20-69 years in the 2011-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to determine the presence of audiometric notches indicative of noise-induced hearing loss. Prevalence of both unilateral and bilateral audiometric notches and their association with sociodemographics and self-reported exposure to loud noise were calculated.

Declining Prevalence of Hearing Loss in US Adults Aged 20 to 69 Years.

Importance: As the US population ages, effective health care planning requires understanding the changes in prevalence of hearing loss.

Objective: To determine if age- and sex-specific prevalence of adult hearing loss has changed during the past decade.

Design, Setting, And Participants: We analyzed audiometric data from adults aged 20 to 69 years from the 2011-2012 cycle of the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a cross-sectional, nationally representative interview and examination survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population, and compared them with data from the 1999-2004 cycles.

Hearing protector fit testing with off-shore oil-rig inspectors in Louisiana and Texas.

Objective: This field study aimed to assess the noise reduction of hearing protection for individual workers, demonstrate the effectiveness of training on the level of protection achieved, and measure the time required to implement hearing protector fit testing in the workplace.

Design: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted field studies in Louisiana and Texas to test the performance of HPD Well-Fit.

Study Sample: Fit tests were performed on 126 inspectors and engineers working in the offshore oil industry.

Hearing Impairment Among Noise-Exposed Workers - United States, 2003-2012.

Hearing loss is the third most common chronic physical condition in the United States, and is more prevalent than diabetes or cancer (1). Occupational hearing loss, primarily caused by high noise exposure, is the most common U.S.

Hearing difficulty and tinnitus among U.S. workers and non-workers in 2007.

Background: Hearing loss and tinnitus are two potentially debilitating physical conditions affecting many people in the United States. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing difficulty, tinnitus, and their co-occurrence within U.S.

Hearing in older adults with exfoliation syndrome/exfoliation glaucoma or primary open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To determine whether adults, aged 66-96 years, with exfoliation syndrome (XFS)/exfoliation glaucoma (XFG), or primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) have poorer hearing than controls of similar age.

Methods: Case (XFS/XFG and POAG) and control status was diagnosed in the Reykjavik Glaucoma Studies (RGS) using slit-lamp examination, visual field testing and optic disc photographs; the RGS data were merged with the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study that collected hearing data using air-conduction, pure-tone thresholds obtained at 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 kHz categorized by better ear and worse ear, based on pure-tone averages (PTAs) calculated separately for low and middle frequencies (PTA512 - mean of thresholds at 0.