Table 1.

Sex, ages, ears analyzed, occupational exposures, and causes of death for all the cases classified as “noise history” in the present study

Sex	Age	Side	Exposure	Cause of death
M	43	L	Military service	Unknown
M	52	R, L	Ship engine room	Pulmonary emboli
M	58	R, L	Ship builder	Chondrosarcoma
M	59	R, L	Pipeline worker	Medullary carcinoma
M	60	L	Truck driver	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
M	61	R, L	Military service, coppersmith	Gastrointestinal bleeding
M	62	R, L	Foundry worker	Meningotheliomatous
M	63	R	Military service	Cardiac arrest
M	66	L	Subway conductor	Stroke
M	68	R, L	Military service: jet engines	Lung cancer
M	69	R, L	Noisy machine	Lung cancer
M	70	R	Carpenter	Carotid artery rupture
M	71	R, L	Steel worker	Myocardial infarction
M	72	R	Construction worker	Necrotizing bronchopneumonia
M	75	R	Welder, riveter	Lung cancer
M	76	R, L	Automobile factory worker	Pulmonary edema, myocardial infarction
M	76	L	Laundry worker	Congestive heart failure, renal failure
M	76	R, L	Factory worker	Unknown
M	77	R	Hunter	Unknown
M	77	R, L	Newspaper pressman	Myocardial infarction
M	78	R	Military service	Unknown
F	81	R	Musician	Myocardial infarction
M	81	R, L	Machinery mover	Myocardial infarction
M	81	R, L	Factory worker	Septicemia
M	82	L	Riveter	Gastrointestinal bleeding
M	83	R	Military service	Stroke, pulmonary emboli
M	84	R, L	Military service	Stroke
M	87	R	Prize fighter	Lung cancer
F	89	L	Factory seamstress	Lung cancer
F	90	R, L	Factory worker	Progressive supranuclear palsy
M	94	R, L	Self-exposed researcher	Unknown
M	95	R, L	Self-exposed researcher	Unknown
F	96	R	Factory seamstress	Stroke, congestive heart failure
M	104	R, L	Ship builder	Unknown

For cases with left and right ears, each side is treated as an individual case.