BACKGROUND: Chronic noise is an environmental pollutant and well-known to cause
annoyance and sleep disturbance. Its association with clinical and subclinical adverse …

Exposure to environmental noise from traffic is common in urban areas and has been linked
to increased risks of adverse health effects including cardiovascular disease. Because traffic …

This systematic review and meta-analysis study aimed to investigate the association
between exposure to road traffic noise (RTN) and myocardial infarction (MI). Of 681 studies …

Road traffic noise in urban areas is a major source of annoyance. A quiet façade has been
hypothesized to beneficially affect annoyance. However, only a limited number of studies …

A “real-time” noise mapping project, named DYNAMAP, has been developed in the
framework of a Life+ 2013 program and cofunded by the European Commission. The project …

This paper studies the effects of densely packed high-rise residential settings on human
perceptions of oppressiveness and annoyance induced by road traffic noise. Earlier studies …

Objective The association between the exposure to road traffic noise and the prevalence of
hypertension was assessed accounting for background air pollution and the location of …

Este artículo aborda un estudio cualitativo sobre la percepción del ruido ambiental o
contaminación acústica en la Ciudad de México. Explora, mediante la técnica de grupos de …

Feedback on personal exposure to air pollution, noise or extreme temperatures through
wearable sensors or sensors installed at home or in the workplace can offer information that …

Currently traffic noise has become an important factor that affects human health, and thus,
an application able to classify vehicles on the basis of the sound they produce becomes …