Is it traffic-related air pollution or road traffic noise, or both? Key questions not yet settled!

M Foraster - International Journal of Public Health, 2013 - Springer
There is substantial evidence for the association of longterm exposure to both road traffic
noise and to ambient and traffic-related air pollution on cardiovascular diseases …

Exposure to workplace noise and the risk of cardiovascular disease events and mortality among older adults

B Gopinath, A Thiagalingam, E Teber, P Mitchell - Preventive medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine whether cross-sectional (prevalence) and
longitudinal relationships (5-year incidence and 10-year mortality) exist between workplace …

Road traffic noise, blood pressure and heart rate: Pooled analyses of harmonized data from 88,336 participants

W Zijlema, Y Cai, D Doiron, S Mbatchou, I Fortier… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction Exposure to road traffic noise may increase blood pressure and heart rate. It is
unclear to what extent exposure to air pollution may influence this relationship. We …

Occupational noise exposure, social class, and risk of ischemic heart disease and all-cause mortality-a 16-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study

P Suadicani, HO Hein, F Gyntelberg - … journal of work, environment & health, 2012 - JSTOR
Objective Long-term exposure to occupational noise may be associated with an increased
risk of ischémie heart disease (IHD) and all-cause mortality. However, the issue remains …

Association between road traffic noise and prevalence of coronary heart disease

D Banerjee, PP Das, A Foujdar - Environmental monitoring and …, 2014 - Springer
There is an established evidence that exposure to high levels of road traffic noise is
associated with elevated risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The results however have …

Traffic noise and cardiovascular risk: the Speedwell study, first phase. Outdoor noise levels and risk factors

W Babisch, H Ising, JEJ Gallacher… - Archives of …, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
As part of the Speedwell study, traffic noise exposure and risk factors for ischemic heart
disease were studied in a sample of 2 348 men whose ages ranged from 45 to 63 y. The …

Relationship between noise annoyance from road traffic noise and cardiovascular diseases: a meta-analysis

A Ndrepepa, D Twardella - Noise and Health, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Road traffic noise is an important source of noise annoyance in the community. We
performed a meta-analysis to assess whether there is an association between noise …

Noise effects on health in the context of air pollution exposure

SA Stansfeld - International journal of environmental research and …, 2015 - mdpi.com
For public health policy and planning it is important to understand the relative contribution of
environmental noise on health compared to other environmental stressors. Air pollution is …

Exposure to road, railway, and aircraft noise and arterial stiffness in the SAPALDIA study: annual average noise levels and temporal noise characteristics

M Foraster, IC Eze, E Schaffner… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The impact of different transportation noise sources and noise environments on
arterial stiffness remains unknown. Objectives: We evaluated the association between …

Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and nitrogen dioxide and risk of heart failure: a cohort study

M Sørensen, O Wendelboe Nielsen… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Although air pollution and road traffic noise have been associated with higher
risk of cardiovascular diseases, associations with heart failure have received only little …