Biological age and rates of aging of patients with vibration disease and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss

Abstract

Biological age and rates of aging of patients with vibration disease and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss were studied. The biological age of patients exceeded the calendar age by an average of 7.36±0.36 years and the proper biological age by 10.79±0.72 years. The rate of biological aging of the examined patients was 1.14±0.08 times higher than the rate of aging of their healthy peers.

On certain issues related to chronic exposure to occupational noise and impacts exerted by it on workers’ bodies (literature review)

“…E.L. Bazarova et al [38] examined workers employed at a metallurgic enterprise; they had substantial clinical data available for analysis and it allowed them to conclude that exposure to noise was a biological stressor «of a great biological activity and could induce pathology occurrence in many organs and systems in a body». A wide range of negative effects produced by noise on a body has been mentioned in multiple works and proven with research results; these results indicate that people who are exposed to noise and vibration have 1.14 more rapid biological ageing against reference groups and their actual biological age is on average more than 10 years greater [39].…”