Background Exposure to transportation noise is hypothesized to contribute to anxiety, but
consistent associations have not been established. Objective To provide a comprehensive …

Recent evidence suggests that traffic noise may negatively impact mental health. However,
existing systematic reviews provide an incomplete overview of the effects of all traffic noise …

Unlike other World Health Organization evidence reviews, the systematic review on mental
disorders could not provide a quantitative estimate of the effect of environmental noise. With …

Background The association between noise annoyance and public transport as a source of
noise has not been studied previously. The aim was to study noise annoyance in an urban …

Background Few studies have examined the relationship between traffic noise and
depression providing inconclusive results. This large case-control study is the first to assess …

Noise annoyance is influenced by sound-related factors: type of noise, noise level and
frequency, and person-related factors—physiological, psychological, and social factors …

Prospective evidence on the risk of depression in relation to transportation noise exposure
and noise annoyance is limited and mixed. We aimed to investigate the associations of long …

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that transportation noise is associated with
blood pressure and hypertension, but little is known about its relationship in the adults living …

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 …

OBJECTIVES: Although noise annoyance is a major public health problem in urban areas,
there is a lack of published data on predictors for noise annoyance in acoustically different …