Antioxidation Medication for Noise-induced Hearing Loss

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

This study will examine whether oral intake of 1200mg N-Acetylcysteine/day will prevent temporary threshold shift in hearing among workers exposed to noise

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Collaborators: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Taiwan; Municipal Hospital of Tainan, Taiwan
• Treatments: Acetylcysteine; N-monoacetylcystine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• workers in steel industry

• known exposure to noise at work

Exclusion Criteria:

• ever diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus

• fasting glucose of 120 or greater