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Occupational noise exposure and risk of incident stroke: a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts

Overview of attention for article published in Occupational and environmental medicine, April 2022
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Title
Occupational noise exposure and risk of incident stroke: a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts
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Occupational and environmental medicine, April 2022
DOI 10.1136/oemed-2021-108053
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Jesse D Thacher, Nina Roswall, Claudia Lissåker, Gunn Marit Aasvang, Maria Albin, Eva M Andersson, Gunnar Engström, Charlotta Eriksson, Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt, Matthias Ketzel, Jibran Khan, Timo Lanki, Petter L S Ljungman, Kristoffer Mattisson, Peter Molnar, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Anna Oudin, Kim Overvad, Sesilje Bondo Petersen, Göran Pershagen, Aslak Harbo Poulsen, Andrei Pyko, Debora Rizzuto, Annika Rosengren, Linus Schioler, Mattias Sjöström, Leo Stockfelt, Pekka Tiittanen, Gerd Sallsten, Mikael Ögren, Jenny Selander, Mette Sorensen

Abstract

To investigate the association between occupational noise exposure and stroke incidence in a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts (NordSOUND). We pooled and harmonised data from five Scandinavian cohorts resulting in 78 389 participants. We obtained job data from national registries or questionnaires and recoded these to match a job-exposure matrix developed in Sweden, which specified the annual average daily noise exposure in five exposure classes (LAeq8h): <70, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, ≥85 dB(A). We identified residential address history and estimated 1-year average road traffic noise at baseline. Using national patient and mortality registers, we identified 7777 stroke cases with a median follow-up of 20.2 years. Analyses were conducted using Cox proportional hazards models adjusting for individual and area-level potential confounders. Exposure to occupational noise at baseline was not associated with overall stroke in the fully adjusted models. For ischaemic stroke, occupational noise was associated with HRs (95% CI) of 1.08 (0.98 to 1.20), 1.09 (0.97 to 1.24) and 1.06 (0.92 to 1.21) in the 75-79, 80-84 and ≥85 dB(A) exposure groups, compared with <70 dB(A), respectively. In subanalyses using time-varying occupational noise exposure, we observed an indication of higher stroke risk among the most exposed (≥85 dB(A)), particularly when restricting analyses to people exposed to occupational noise within the last year (HR: 1.27; 95% CI: 0.99 to 1.63). We found no association between occupational noise and risk of overall stroke after adjustment for confounders. However, the non-significantly increased risk of ischaemic stroke warrants further investigation.

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Unknown 11 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 18%
Researcher 2 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 9%
Student > Master 1 9%
Unknown 5 45%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 2 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 18%
Unknown 7 64%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2023.
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