Tinnitus and Other Auditory Problems – Occupational Noise Exposure below Risk Limits May Cause Inner Ear Dysfunction

Ann-Cathrine Lindblad; Ulf Rosenhall; Åke Olofsson; Björn Hagerman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097377

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Tinnitus and Other Auditory Problems – Occupational Noise Exposure below Risk Limits May Cause Inner Ear Dysfunction

Ann-Cathrine Lindblad ,

* E-mail: anncat.lindblad@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Unit of Technical and Experimental Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ulf Rosenhall,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institutet; and Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Åke Olofsson,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Unit of Technical and Experimental Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Björn Hagerman

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Unit of Technical and Experimental Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tinnitus and Other Auditory Problems – Occupational Noise Exposure below Risk Limits May Cause Inner Ear Dysfunction

Ann-Cathrine Lindblad,
Ulf Rosenhall,
Åke Olofsson,
Björn Hagerman

Published: May 14, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097377

About the Authors

Ann-Cathrine Lindblad

* E-mail: anncat.lindblad@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Unit of Technical and Experimental Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ulf Rosenhall

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institutet; and Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Åke Olofsson

Björn Hagerman

Competing Interests

This project was partly supported by AFA Insurance. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACL UR BH ÅO. Performed the experiments: ACL ÅO. Analyzed the data: ACL BH. Wrote the paper: ACL UR BH ÅO. Designed the software used for hearing tests: ÅO.

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