The relationship between transportation noise exposure and ischemic heart disease: A meta-analysis

Abstract

The evidence for an effect of transportation noise with IHD necessitates further research into the threshold and the shape of the exposure-response association, potential sources of heterogeneity and effect modification. Research in different cultural contexts is also important to derive regional and local estimates for the contribution of transportation noise to the global burden of disease.

Long-term transportation noise annoyance is associated with subsequent lower levels of physical activity

“…Cross-sectional logistic regression at SAP 3 adjusted for age, sex, menopause, educational level, civil status, smoking, passive smoking, alcohol, diet, BMI, and including a random effect by study area. van Kempen and Babisch, 2012;Vienneau et al, 2015). The null association for railway noise annoyance may be potentially due to the low levels of annoyance and railway noise exposure in this sample and was also in agreement with the little health-related evidence on the source (Dratva et al, 2012).…”

“…Long-term exposure to transportation noise has been associated with cardiovascular disease (Babisch, 2014;Dratva et al, 2012;van Kempen and Babisch, 2012;Vienneau et al, 2015), the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide Murray et al, 2012), and could also relate to diabetes (Dzhambov, 2015) and obesity (Eriksson et al, 2014;Oftedal et al, 2015;Pyko et al, 2015). The major mechanism towards cardiovascular diseases may be through the direct physiological stress reaction to the actual level of noise during rest (i.e.…”

Exposure to long-term air pollution and road traffic noise in relation to cholesterol: A cross-sectional study

“…As road traffic is an important source of both noise and ambient air pollution the two exposures are correlated, making it difficult to separate their effects. Some of the few studies including both exposures in relation to cardiovascular disease suggest an effect of both road traffic noise and air pollution in mutually adjusted models Dratva et al, 2012;Vienneau et al, 2015), whereas other studies indicate associations mainly with one of the pollutants (Beelen et al, 2009;Sorensen et al, 2014).…”

Years of life lost and morbidity cases attributable to transportation noise and air pollution: A comparative health risk assessment for Switzerland in 2010

“…We had previously developed meta-analytic estimates of the effects of noise on several cardiovascular outcomes (ARE, 2014a;Vienneau et al, 2015). This included a meta-analysis to derive an exposure-response function for ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, and the pooling of two existing meta-analysis estimates to derive a summary estimate for hypertension ( Table 1).…”