Aims The present study aimed to disentangle the risk of the three major transportation noise
sources—road, railway, and aircraft traffic—and the air pollutants NO2 and PM2. 5 on …

Background Traffic noise can act as a stressor and disturb sleep, and has been associated
with cardiovascular disease. Recent studies suggest a possible association to metabolic …

Aims Road traffic noise has been associated with hypertension but evidence for the long-
term effects on hospital admissions and mortality is limited. We examined the effects of long …

To update the current state of evidence and assess its quality, we conducted a systematic
review on the effects of environmental noise exposure on the cardio-metabolic systems as …

Background Most epidemiological noise studies consider 24 h average noise exposure
levels. Our aim was to exploratively analyze the impact of noise exposure at different time …

The recognition of noise exposure as a prominent environmental determinant of public
health has grown substantially. While recent years have yielded a wealth of evidence linking …

Environmental pollution and non-chemical stressors such as mental stress or traffic noise
exposure are increasingly accepted as health risk factors with substantial contribution to …

Background Annoyance is a common reaction in populations exposed to environmental
noise and is associated with cardiovascular diseases. We investigated for the first time the …

For the development of the WHO Noise Guidelines for the European Region, meta-analyses
for various cardio-metabolic outcomes were conducted to derive exposure-response …

Aims Living close to high traffic has been linked to subclinical atherosclerosis, however it is
not clear, whether fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution or noise, two important traffic …