Features of Sensorineural Hearing Loss Caused by Exposure to Aircraft Noise

Abstract

An urgent problem in industry and transport continues to be the adverse effects of noise. In terms of prevalence among industrial physical factors, noise in Russia ranks first (17.5%). Exposure to noise with a level exceeding the maximum permissible level, several million people are exposed. Among occupational diseases from physical factors, sensorineural hearing loss (STI) steadily takes the first place, and its share in 2018 was 55%. When studying the working conditions of aviation specialists (AS), the spectrum of aviation noise (AS) contains an infrasound component, the role of which was not given much importance in the formation of aviation pathology. It is shown that the simultaneous action of noise and infrasound (FR) exacerbates the harmful effects of each of these factors. Despite numerous studies on the adverse effects of AS, the mechanisms of its action on humans require further study.