Urbanization and increasing road traffic cause exposure to both noise and air pollution.
While the levels of air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NO x) have decreased in Sweden …

Traffic noise and air pollution have been associated with cardiovascular health effects. Until
date, only a limited amount of prospective epidemiological studies is available on long-term …

Long-term exposure to traffic noise has been suggested to increase the risk of
cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, few studies have been performed in the general …

Background: Transportation noise may induce cardiovascular disease, but the public health
implications are unclear. Objectives: The study aimed to assess exposure–response …

Background Death from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) has been associated with
transportation noise. This nationwide cohort, with state-of-the-art exposure assessment …

Background: Transportation noise is increasingly acknowledged as a cardiovascular risk
factor, but the evidence base for an association with stroke is sparse. Objective: We aimed to …

In Sweden, as in many other European countries, traffic noise is an important environmental
health issue. At present, almost two million people are exposed to average noise levels …

Although the auditory effects of noise on humans have been established, the non-auditory
effects are not so well established. The emerging links between noise and cardiovascular …

Transportation noise is a growing public health concern worldwide and epidemiological
evidence has linked road traffic noise with mortality. However, incongruent effect estimates …

Objectives: Associations between cardiovascular mortality and air pollution and noise
together were investigated. Methods: Data from the ongoing Netherlands Cohort Study on …