title: [Diagnostics on noise-induced hearing loss].
abstract: Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) may qualify to compensation and must be distinguished from the ski slope hearing loss (SKI) which is a hereditary type of hearing loss. By combining the NIHL and presbyacusis tables of ISO 1999 it was concluded that in a hearing loss caused solely by noise and ageing the median threshold at 2 kHz is never poorer than 35 dB, and that the ratio between the actual 3 kHz threshold and the average 2-4 kHz threshold does not exceed 1.3. Thus, the audiometric characteristics of the 2-3 kHz segment can distinguish between NIHL and SKI.
authors.affiliation: Høreklinikken, Kabbeltoft 25, Vejle Sygehus, 7100 Vejle. E-mail: juul.gimsing@live.dk.
authors.forename: Steen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gimsing
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans