Abstract
The objective of the present study was to investigate whether employees in a noise-exposed environment developed changes in cochlear function as manifested by elevation of pure-tone threshold and/or reduction in transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) amplitude. Pure-tone air-conduction audiometry, otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and tympanometry were recorded in 13 healthy employees on three consecutive days both before and after 7 h of noise exposure. Employees exposed to an industrial noise level of 85-90 dBA developed significant pure-tone air-conduction threshold elevation at 4 and 6 kHz. A significant reduction of the TEOAE amplitude was found. There was no correlation between temporary threshold shift (TTS) and TEOAE reduction.
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