Background: Environmental health is a growing area of knowledge, continually increasing
and updating the body of evidence linking the environment to human health. Aim: This study …

A number of epidemiological studies report an association between occupational noise
exposure and arterial hypertension. Existing systematic reviews report conflicting results, so …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Hypertension, defined as persistently elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP)> 140 mmHg
and/or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at least 90 mmHg (International Society of …

Background The prevalence of diabetes is on rise worldwide and environmental factors are
being increasingly recognized to be involved in this rise. An emerging body of evidence has …

Traffic noise and air pollution are 2 major environmental health risk factors in urbanized
societies that often occur together. Despite cooccurrence in urban settings, noise and air …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Multiple cross-sectional studies indicated an association between hypertension and road
traffic noise and they were recently synthetized in a WHO systematic evidence review …

Background: Exposure to acute noise can cause an increase in biological stress reactions,
which provides biological plausibility for a potential association between sustained noise …

Abstract Purpose of Review Workplace noise negatively impacts health, and noise-induced
hearing loss is the most common work-related disease in many countries. Occupational …