Correlations between certain hearing changes and vegetative balance in miners. 2004

L Tsaneva, and R Dukov
National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria.

This study responds to the priorities of the National Health Strategy aimed at control and mitigation of the hazardous effects of the workplace factors on cardio-vascular diseases of people in active working age from the branch "Mining industry". The aim of this work is to study the vegetative balance (by analysis of heart rate variability--AHRV) and the correlations with the state of miners' hearing functions. Sixty eight miners (diggers and mate-diggers) from mining industry were studied. This paper treats the results of AHRV examination of 25 miners who have no major and additional causes, leading to hearing injury--traumas, other diseases, medicines, etc. The analysis of heart rate variability was made by computer analysis of heart rate and variability. Standard ECG electrodes at bi-polar breast lead-off were used for recording ECG signals. The echo-cardiographic signal was converted by an ECG converter board into epochs of cardiac events (R-R intervals) for 10 minutes. The principal indices of heart rate variability were analysed. The obtained results provide the ground for further comprehensive studies on different workers contingents from other industries in order to detect workers with initial changes in the hearing analyser and to establish the corresponding pathogenetically based registration, monitoring, and treatment system. The studies conducted for monitoring the dynamic of vegetative equilibrium reflect the degree of disturbed heterostasis by chronically manifested sympatic activity in miners, diagnosed by AHRV indices. The revealed significant relationships between hearing changes and AHRV indices prove the presence of an extra-aural paraprofessional effect and statistically significant relations with the changes in the critical organ. The revealed highly significant correlations between AHRV indices and hearing show a significant relationship between the physiological vegetative level (assessed by AHRV) and the hearing status at chronic exposure to work-related stress factors in miners. The chronic sympathicotonia is an additional pathogenic factor (besides acoustic stress) manifested by spastic changes in the microcirculation of the cochlear neuroreceptor elements.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D008906 Mining The process of extracting mineral deposits from the earth.
D009623 Noise, Occupational Noise present in occupational, industrial, and factory situations. Occupational Noise,Noises, Occupational,Occupational Noises
D009784 Occupational Diseases Diseases caused by factors involved in one's employment. Diseases, Occupational,Occupational Illnesses,Disease, Occupational,Illnesse, Occupational,Illnesses, Occupational,Occupational Disease,Occupational Illnesse
D003056 Cochlear Nerve The cochlear part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE). The cochlear nerve fibers originate from neurons of the SPIRAL GANGLION and project peripherally to cochlear hair cells and centrally to the cochlear nuclei (COCHLEAR NUCLEUS) of the BRAIN STEM. They mediate the sense of hearing. Acoustic Nerve,Auditory Nerve,Acoustic Nerves,Auditory Nerves,Cochlear Nerves,Nerve, Acoustic,Nerve, Auditory,Nerve, Cochlear,Nerves, Acoustic,Nerves, Auditory,Nerves, Cochlear
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D005260 Female Females
D006309 Hearing The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition. Audition
D006311 Hearing Disorders Conditions that impair the transmission of auditory impulses and information from the level of the ear to the temporal cortices, including the sensorineural pathways. Distorted Hearing,Dysacusis,Paracousis,Paracusis,Hearing Disorder,Hearing, Distorted

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