Sensorineural hearing loss in high school teenagers in Mexico City and its relationship with recreational noise Las alteraciones auditivas de escolares adolescentes en la Ciudad de México pueden estar relacionadas al ruido recreativo

• Main Authors: María del Consuelo Martínez-Wbaldo (Author), Claudia Soto-Vázquez (Author), Ivonne Ferre-Calacich (Author), Elizabeth Zambrano-Sánchez (Author), Lucía Noguez-Trejo (Author), Adrián Poblano (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of hearing loss in a sample of typical public high-school students exposed to recreational noise, and determine associated risk factors. The sample was made up of 214 teenagers from a high-school in Mexico City; subjects were selected randomly per s...