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SUBMITTER: Basner M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3988259 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Basner Mathias M Babisch Wolfgang W Davis Adrian A Brink Mark M Clark Charlotte C Janssen Sabine S Stansfeld Stephen S
Lancet (London, England) 20131030 9925
Noise is pervasive in everyday life and can cause both auditory and non-auditory health effects. Noise-induced hearing loss remains highly prevalent in occupational settings, and is increasingly caused by social noise exposure (eg, through personal music players). Our understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in noise-induced hair-cell and nerve damage has substantially increased, and preventive and therapeutic drugs will probably become available within 10 years. Evidence of the non-audito ...[more]