ArticleBMJ open2013
Effects of train noise and vibration on human heart rate during sleep: an experimental study.
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- Novel Technique to Measure Pulse Wave Velocity in Brain Vessels Using a Fast Simultaneous Multi-Slice Excitation Magnetic Resonance Sequence.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure⁻Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Effects of Aircraft Noise Exposure on Heart Rate during Sleep in the Population Living Near Airports.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Vibration in mice: A review of comparative effects and use in translational research.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2018Review
- Different Types of Sounds and Their Relationship With the Electrocardiographic Signals and the Cardiovascular System - Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Physiological effects of railway vibration and noise on sleep.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2017Article
- Vibration from freight trains fragments sleep: A polysomnographic study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Hypotension and environmental noise: a replication study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
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- Population Annoyance by Below-Limit Industrial Noise from the Mining Industry: A Questionnaire Survey Methodology.Noise & healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTransportation of goods on railways is increasing and the majority of the increased numbers of freight trains run during the night. Transportation noise has adverse effects on sleep structure, affects the heart rate (HR) during sleep and may be linked to cardiovascular disease. Freight trains also generate vibration and little is known regarding the impact of vibration on human sleep. A laboratory study was conducted to examine how a realistic nocturnal railway traffic scenario influences HR during sleep.
designCase-control.
settingHealthy participants.
participants24 healthy volunteers (11 men, 13 women, 19-28 years) spent six consecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
interventionsAll participants slept during one habituation night, one control and four experimental nights in which train noise and vibration were reproduced. In the experimental nights, 20 or 36 trains with low-vibration or high-vibration characteristics were presented. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Polysomnographical data and ECG were recorded.
resultsThe train exposure led to a significant change of HR within 1 min of exposure onset (p=0.002), characterised by an initial and a delayed increase of HR. The high-vibration condition provoked an average increase of at least 3 bpm per train in 79% of the participants. Cardiac responses were in general higher in the high-vibration condition than in the low-vibration condition (p=0.006). No significant effect of noise sensitivity and gender was revealed, although there was a tendency for men to exhibit stronger HR acceleration than women.
conclusionsFreight trains provoke HR accelerations during sleep, and the vibration characteristics of the trains are of special importance. In the long term, this may affect cardiovascular functioning of persons living close to railways.
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