Impulse noise and hand-arm vibration in relation to sensory neural hearing loss.

@article{Starck1988ImpulseNA,
  title={Impulse noise and hand-arm vibration in relation to sensory neural hearing loss.},
  author={Jukka Starck and Jussi Pekkarinen and Ilmari Pyykkő},
  journal={Scandinavian journal of work, environment \& health},
  year={1988},
  volume={14 4},
  pages={
          265-71
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25700984}
}
It is suggested that exposure to impulse noise increases the risk of SNHL, but that simultaneous exposure to hand-arm vibration and noise does not.
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