The Correlation of Smoking with Hearing Loss Due to Noise in Furniture Factory Workers at PT Chitose Cimahi Haryo Bayu Putranto, Yanti Nurokhmawati
ENT Department Dustira Hospital Cimahi
Medical Faculty of General Achmad Yani University, West Java Indonesia
Abstract
Background : Hearing loss due to noise is a disturbance in the form of a decrease function sense of hearing due to exposure noise with excessive continuous noise intensity for a long time. Smoking triggers cochlear ischemia by the mechanism of carboxyhemoglobin production and vasospasm. So that smoking habits and exposure to noise can interfere with the cochlea to carry out its functions.
Objective: To determine the correlation between smoking and noice induced hearing loss due to noise in furniture factory workers at PT Chitose Cimahi
Methods: Analytical research with cross sectional method and bivariate analysis using chi square. Data collection by total sampling.
Results: Of the 66 workers, the proportion of smokers workers was 56.06%, and 56.06% of the workers had noise induced hearing loss. There was no significant correlation between smokers and noise induced hearing loss (p = 0.898).
Conclusion: There is an insignificant relationship between smoking habit and noise induced hearing loss in furniture factory workers at PT Chitose Camille
