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Occupational noise exposure is associated with hypertension in China: Results from project ELEFANT

Cayir, A, Barrow, TM, Wang, H, Liu, H, Li, C, Ding, N, Li, Y, Kang, CM, Guo, L, Li, PH and Byun, HM (2018) Occupational noise exposure is associated with hypertension in China: Results from project ELEFANT. PLoS One, 13 (12). e0209041.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
We investigated the association between occupational noise exposure and the risk of elevated blood pressure and hypertension by stage in young adults.

METHODS:
We utilized 124,286 young adults (18-40 years) from the Project ELEFANT study. We categorized occupational noise exposure as high (75 dBA noise exposure for more than 4 hours per day) or low, and measured blood pressure (mmHg) and categorized participants by hypertension stage (normal, elevated, Stage 1, Stage 2). We applied adjusted logistic regression models to identify associations with hypertension risk, and we further examined the noise-BMI, noise-gender, and noise-residence interactions on hypertension risk in separate models.

RESULTS:
High occupational noise exposure was associated with increases in blood pressure among participants with elevated blood pressure (Estimate = 0.23, 95% CI: 1.09, 1.46, p = 0.0009), in Stage 1 hypertension (Estimate = 0.15, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.25, p = 0.0008), and in Stage 2 hypertension (Estimate = 0.41 95% CI: 1.31, 1.73, p<0.0001). Likewise, noise exposure-BMI interaction was consistently positively associated with increases in blood pressure in participants with elevated blood pressure (Estimate = 0.71, 95% CI: 1.55, 2.69, p<0.0001), in Stage 1 hypertension (Estimate = 0.78, 95% CI: 1.82, 2.61, p<0.0001), and in Stage 2 hypertension (Estimate = 2.06, 95% CI: 5.64, 10.81, p<0.0001). The noise exposure-male interaction showed higher risk for hypertension compared to the noise exposure-female interaction in participants with elevated blood pressure (Estimate = 1.24, 95% CI: 2.56, 4.71, p<0.0001), Stage 1 (Estimate = 1.67, 95% CI: 4.34, 6.42, p<0.0001) and Stage 2 hypertension (Estimate = 1.70, 95% CI: 3.86, 7.77, p<0.0001). Finally, we found that noise exposure-urban interaction was consistently associated with an increase in blood pressure in elevated blood pressure (Estimate = 0.32, 95% CI: 1.19, 1.62, p<0.0001) and in Stage 2 hypertension (Estimate = 0.44, 95% CI: 1.31, 1.80, p<0.0001).

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Depositing User: Timothy Barrow

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Item ID: 10485
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/10485

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ORCID for TM Barrow: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-3857

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Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2019 10:09
Last Modified: 20 May 2019 11:45

Contributors

Author: TM Barrow ORCID iD
Author: A Cayir
Author: H Wang
Author: H Liu
Author: C Li
Author: N Ding
Author: Y Li
Author: CM Kang
Author: L Guo
Author: PH Li
Author: HM Byun

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing

Subjects

Sciences > Biomedical Sciences
Sciences > Health Sciences

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