[Intensity of industrial noise and the incidence of arterial hypertension (according to data from a prospective epidemiological study of organized female populations in Moscow]. / Intensivnyi proizvodstvennyi shum i zabolevaemost' arterial'noi gipertoniei (po dannym prospektivnogo épidemiologicheskogo issledovaniia organizovannykh zhenskikh populiatsii v moskve).

A prospective epidemiological study of women at textile mills (a study group) working under the conditions of intense industrial noise (85-105 dBA) and at bakeries without such noise (a control group) was conducted. In the study group 353 (80%) women and 450 (71%) controls were repeatedly examined after 4.9 and 4.2 yrs, respectively. In the presence of such factors as borderline AH, smoking, aggravated heredity with respect to AH, MI and cerebral stroke, noise increased 3-fold, on an average, the risk of AH development as compared to its absence. Therefore noise can be defined as a "decisive" factor for the action of other AH risk factors.