[Can the thesis of higher noise resistance in working women be maintained?].
Using the data of 2,000 medical opinions concerning hearing loss due to noise the thesis of a higher noise resistance of exposed working women is tested on the base of the hearing loss comparison of female and male individuals of a paired random sample. The results of the examination show that there is a weak not statistically significant difference of noise susceptibility depending on sex which is negligible small comparing it with the high interindividual differences of the noise susceptibility of men and women. This possibly existing very small difference of hearing loss unfavourable for noise exposed men doesn't authorize to consider women as more resistant against noise as men.
Müller
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Richartz
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D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors
Ist die These von der höheren Lärmresistenz berufstätiger Frauen aufrechterhaltbar?