title: Noise-induced hearing loss: a military perspective.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize relevant literature occurring over the past 12-18 months forwarding understanding of noise-induced hearing loss in relation to military service.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Hearing loss prior to entry into military service is highly predictive of subsequent hearing loss and hearing loss disability. Tightly controlled organic solvent exposure may not be a significant risk factor for noise-induced hearing loss. Increasingly detailed analysis of high intensity noise, impulse and blast noise exposures, and the methods used to mitigate these exposures are leading to breakthroughs in understanding and predicting hearing loss in military service.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prevention, mitigation, treatment, and prediction of the effects of hazardous noise exposure in military service continue to require a multidisciplinary team of individuals from around the world fully aware of the detrimental effect to service members and their societies of hearing loss disability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Travis J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Pfannenstiel
mesh_terms: D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000150:complications; D019295:Computational Biology; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D009623:Noise, Occupational; D012997:Solvents / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D012997:Solvents