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SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Occupational Noise and Hypertension Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Ulrich Bolm-Audorff, Janice Hegewald, Anna Pretzsch, Alice Freiberg, Albert Nienhaus, Andreas Seidler

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Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 44 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ulrich Bolm-AudorffDivision of Occupational Health, Department of Occupational Safety and Environment, Regional Government of South Hesse, 65197 Wiesbaden, Germany.
Janice HegewaldInstitute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Anna PretzschInstitute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1218-6821
Alice FreibergInstitute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Albert NienhausCompetence Center for Epidemiology and Health Services Research for Healthcare Professionals (CVcare), Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Nursing (IVDP), University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
Andreas SeidlerInstitute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Technische Universität Dresden · DEChemnitz University of Technology · DEJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DEUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A number of epidemiological studies report an association between occupational noise exposure and arterial hypertension. Existing systematic reviews report conflicting results, so we conducted an updated systematic review with meta-analysis. We registered the review protocol with PROSPERO (registration no.: CRD 42019147923) and searched for observational epidemiological studies in literature databases (Medline, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science). Two independent reviewers screened the titles/abstracts and full texts of the studies. Two reviewers also did the quality assessment and data extraction. Studies without adequate information on recruitment, response, or without a comparison group that was exposed to occupational noise under 80 dB(A) were excluded. The literature search yielded 4583 studies, and 58 studies were found through hand searching. Twenty-four studies were included in the review. The meta-analysis found a pooled effect size (ES) for hypertension (systolic/diastolic blood pressure ≥140/90 mmHg) due to noise exposures ≥80 dB(A) of 1.75 (95% CI 1.46–2.10). There is no substantial risk difference between men and women, but data concerning this question are limited. We found a positive dose-response-relationship: ES = 1.21 (95% CI 0.78–1.87) ≤ 80 dB(A), ES = 1.66 (95% CI 1.24–2.22) > 80–≤85 dB(A), and ES = 3.38 (95% CI 1.37–8.35) > 85–≤90 dB(A). We found high quality of evidence that occupational noise exposure increases the risk of hypertension.

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Blood PressureHumansHypertensionNoise, OccupationalOccupational DiseasesOccupational Exposurearterial hypertensionblood pressuredose response relationshipmeta-analysisnoiseoccupationsystematic reviewwork

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PMID32872306
PMCPMC7504405
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