Road traffic noise and hypertension – Accounting for the location of rooms

Babisch, Wolfgang; Wölke, Gabriele; Heinrich, Joachim; Straff, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.05.007

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“…Additionally, it was not possible to differentiate between residential buildings and non-residential buildings; therefore, a non-differential misclassification bias might have occurred and affected our results. Furthermore, individual factors describing the housing conditions, location of rooms, subjective noise annoyance, hearing problems, or length of residence are known to potentially influence cardio-respiratory disease [35,38,39]. Additionally, aircraft or industrial noise [10,40] is suggested to affect cardiovascular and respiratory disease and was, due to missing data, not considered in our study.…”

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Associations of Noise and Socioeconomic and -Demographic Status on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases on Borough Level in a Large German City State

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Worldwide, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are increasing. Environmental noise and the socioeconomic and sociodemographic situation are important factors for the diseases. Using borough health claims data from 2011 in the city of Hamburg, ecological analyses with principal component analyses were conducted to describe the relationship of road traffic noise L den (day, evening, and night) > 65 dB(A), physician density, and social deprivation with regional prevalence rates of heart failure and hypertension (n = 67 boroughs). Additionally, associations between the considered factors with borough prevalence rates of acute bronchitis and asthma in children up to 14 years old were analyzed. The multivariate regression analyses (ANCOVA) indicated that the socioeconomic and sociodemographic borough background might be associated with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, showing the strongest association among hypertensive female patients with 9.90 percent (p < 0.0001) in the highest social deprivation category, when compared to the group of low social deprivation. However, associations between noise, physician density, and the respective health outcomes were negligible. Results will serve as a basis for further investigations. By using data from two surveys, future studies will focus on individual level data to assess the validity of our model, and to develop strategies to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

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Associations of Noise and Socioeconomic and -Demographic Status on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases on Borough Level in a Large German City State

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“…Many studies have investigated the relationship between road traffic noise, aircraft noise and different cardiovascular health outcomes [100,101]. Jarup et al for instance showed significant associations between hypertension and people living close to one of the six major European airports [102].…”

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A Conceptual Modeling Approach to Health-Related Urban Well-Being

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Abstract:In cities, social well-being faces obstacles posed by globalization, demographic and climate change, new forms of social organization, and the fragmentation of lifestyles. These changes affect the vulnerability of city societies and impact their health-related urban well-being (UrbWellth). The conceptual model introduced in this paper systematizes the relevant variables while considering previous research, and establishes the target value UrbWellth. The model differs from existing approaches mainly in the analytical distinctions it suggests. These allow us to group the relevant urban influence variables into four sectors and enable a more general and abstract consideration of health-related urban relations. The introduction of vulnerability as a filter and transfer function acts as an effect modifier between UrbWellth and the various urban variables.

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“…Exposure to road traffic noise and aircraft noise-also dependent on social characteristics-was associated with different cardiovascular diseases [51][52][53], respiratory diseases [54,55], and depression and anxiety [56,57]. Other studies investigated exposure to air pollution and found higher risk for all causes and cardio-respiratory mortality [58][59][60][61].…”

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Empirical Evidences for Urban Influences on Public Health in Hamburg

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From the current perspectives of urban health and environmental justice research, health is the result of a combination of individual, social and environmental factors. Yet, there are only few attempts to determine their joint influence on health and well-being. Grounded in debates surrounding conceptual models and based on a data set compiled for the city of Hamburg, this paper aims to provide insights into the most important variables influencing urban health. Theoretically, we are primarily referring to the conceptual model of health-related urban well-being (UrbWellth), which systemizes urban influences in four sectors. The systematization of the conceptual model is empirically confirmed by a principal component analysis: the factors derived from the data correspond well with the deductively derived model. Additionally, a multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify the most important variables influencing the participant's self-rated health (SRH): rating of one's social network, rating of neighborhood air quality, rating of neighborhood health infrastructure, heat stress (day/outdoors), cold stress (night/indoors). When controlling for age, income and smoking behavior, these variables explain 12% of the variance of SRH. Thus, these results support the concept of UrbWellth empirically. Finally, the study design helped to identify hotspots with negative impact on SRH within the research areas.

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Road traffic noise and hypertension – Accounting for the location of rooms

Cited by 48 publications

References 37 publications

Associations of Noise and Socioeconomic and -Demographic Status on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases on Borough Level in a Large German City State

Associations of Noise and Socioeconomic and -Demographic Status on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases on Borough Level in a Large German City State

A Conceptual Modeling Approach to Health-Related Urban Well-Being

Empirical Evidences for Urban Influences on Public Health in Hamburg

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