It is a one-sided preconception that living in a city is necessarily associated with unbearable
noise exposure. The observed variation of noise exposure in cities is quite large and you …

Background Epidemiological evidence suggests potential associations of road traffic noise
exposure with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality, but uncertainty remains …

Traffic noise is nearly ubiquitous and thus can affect the health of many people. Using the
German noise mapping data according to the Directive 2002/49/EC of 2017 and exposure …

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 …

Address-level estimates of exposure to road traffic noise for epidemiological studies are
dependent on obtaining data on annual average daily traffic (AADT) flows that is both …

Background: There is a growing body of evidence linking residential exposure to
transportation noise with several nonauditory health outcomes. However, auditory …

Background Long-term exposure to transportation noise is related to cardio-metabolic
diseases, with more recent evidence also showing associations with diabetes mellitus (DM) …

Background Noise annoyance is the second-highest cause of lost disability-adjusted life-
years due to environmental noise in Europe. Evidence on exposure-response relationships …

Background: Although plausible from a pathophysiological point of view, robust evidence for
effects of transportation noise on mental health remains scarce. Meanwhile, psychiatric …

Increasing noise from traffic occurs in parallel with urbanisation. Noise acts as a stressor
provoking a typical stress response, with hyperactivity of the sympathetic autonomic nervous …