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Objective To investigate the health status of workers exposed to noise in a brewery in Beijing and to analyze the relationship between hearing loss and blood pressure. Methods A total of 949 noise-exposed workers in a brewery who participated in occupational health examination were selected as the investigation subjects. A survey was conducted to investigate the pure tone hearing threshold and abnormal blood pressure of the workers with different characteristics, and to analyze the relationship between the two. Results Among the noise-exposed workers, the detection rates of hearing abnormality, hypertension, and increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure were 73.55%, 52.37%, 43.84% and 46.47%, respectively. The detection rates of hearing abnormality, indicators of hypertension, high frequency hearing threshold abnormality and increased binaural high frequency hearing threshold on average in males were higher than those in females (P 0.05), the detection rates of other hearing abnormality, indicators of hypertension, speech frequency hearing threshold abnormality, high frequency hearing threshold abnormality，increased binaural high frequency hearing threshold on average and the weighted value of the better ear's hearing threshold all increased or had an increasing trend with the increase of age or working years (P< 0.05). The detection rates of hypertension in the groups with high frequency hearing threshold abnormality and increased binaural high frequency hearing threshold on average were higher than those in the normal group (P＜0.05). Conclusion The noise-exposed workers in the brewery have hearing impairment, which is related to the occurrence of hypertension. It is recommended to strengthen the publicity and education on noise protection and take protective measures to reduce the occurrence of occupational noise injury.
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With the improvement of living standards in China, people pay more and more attention to sports and fitness. Therefore, the contradiction between air pollution and sports becomes an urgent problem to be solved. In this paper, the acute and chronic effects of exercise on human cardiovascular and pulmonary functions under the environment of particulate matter pollution are summarized and analyzed, and countermeasures are put forward on the basis of this analysis.
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Objective@#The aim of this study was to understand the status of health examination on public health employees in Beijing, in order to further standardize the health management of the employees.@*Methods@#Questionnaire surveys and personal interviews were produced to obtain the basic information, physical examination, occupational training, knowledge of health laws and regulations, and satisfaction of employees. Pairwise comparison was conducted by chi-square test. Multivariate linear regression was used for multivariate analysis.@*Results@#The percentage of the public health employees who took the blood tests, X-ray examinations, fecal examinations, and skin examinations were 97.0%, 77.6%, 86.4%, and 51.0%, respectively. After excluding the skin examination, the completion rate of other examination items was 72.1%, and the difference of this rate between public hospitals and private hospitals were statistically significant (χ2=36.22, P<0.001; χ2=9.09, P=0.003; χ2=31.06, P<0.001). The percentage of correct answers to all the five questions was 3.2%, and age, working age and education level were positively correlated with knowledge scores of employees.@*Conclusions@#The problems in Beijing’s health examination of employees included poor examination quality, lack of supervision, inability to trace the source and low awareness rate of health knowledge, which suggested that counter measures should be taken immediately.
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Objective@#To evaluate the practical efficacy of a colloidal gold (CG) detection reagent of rabies virus antibody.@*Methods@#Series dilutions of rabies immunoglobulin and serum samples of rabies vaccine immunized population were tested by a CG detection reagent of rabies virus antibody and rapid fluorescent focus inhibition test (RFFIT). The consistency of the qualitative results of rabies virus antibodies between the two methods were compared. The comparison of rates was made by Chi-square test.@*Results@#For rabies immunoglobulin diluent, the detection limit of the rabies virus antibody CG detection reagent was higher than 6.53 IU/ml but lower than 9.53 IU/ml. For the serum samples, the detection limit of the rabies virus antibody CG detection reagent was higher than 2.80 IU/ml but lower than 3.30 IU/ml. The positive rates of serum rabies virus antibodies detected by CG and RFFIT were 26% and 67% respectively, and the difference was statistically significant (χ2 =13.66, P=0.000). The results of RFFIT were regarded as gold standard, false negative results but no false positive results were observed when CG was used to detect serum rabies virus antibodies.@*Conclusions@#The sensitivity of the rabies virus antibody CG detection reagent is poor, and attention should be paid to the phenomenon of missing some practically positive results in practical application of CG detection reagent.