Tn. Wu et al., COMPARISON OF BLOOD-PRESSURE IN DEAF-MUTE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH NORMAL-HEARING - ASSOCIATION BETWEEN NOISE AND BLOOD-PRESSURE, International archives of occupational and environmental health, 65(2), 1993, pp. 119-123
The present study assessed the relationship between noise exposure and
blood pressure. The study population consisted of 892 children from t
wo elementary schools. The noise-sensitive group comprised 583 subject
s with normal hearing from one school, while the noise-insensitive gro
up comprised 309 deaf-mutes from another school. The deaf subjects had
significantly lower blood pressure than the subjects with normal hear
ing (P < 0.05) after adjustment for age. Multiple regression analysis
revealed that body mass index, age, and hearing ability explained a si
gnificant amount of the variation in systolic and diastolic blood pres
sure (R2 = 0.17 and 0.16, respectively). On the basis of the results,
it is suggested that noise exposure is associated with higher systolic
and diastolic blood pressure.