SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for the United Kingdom Policy Context: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Environmental Noise on Mental Health, Wellbeing, Quality of Life, Cancer, Dementia, Birth, Reproductive Outcomes, and Cognition.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between Noise Annoyance and Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Chronic Noise Exposure and Risk of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Traffic Noise and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of Noise Exposure on Risk of Developing Stress-Related Metabolic Effects: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Noise & healthPooled it
- Glomerular Injury Induced by Daily Exposure to the Low-Frequency Component of Environmental Noise via Endothelin Signaling in Mice.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- The Accra school health and environment study (ASHES): a study of the urban environment and child health and development in Accra.Environmental research communications · 2026Article
- Effect of noise and green space exposure on depression, anxiety and stress among the Lebanese population.PloS one · 2026Article
- Association of road traffic noise exposure with dementia or cognitive impairment - A systematic review of longitudinal cohort studies.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Maternal environmental noise exposure during the periconceptional period and risk of congenital heart disease in offspring: a case-control study in Northwest China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2025Article
- Short-term effects of chemical and noise pollution during heat and cold waves on emergency hospital admissions in Madrid.International journal of biometeorology · 2025Article
- Assessing Annoyance and Sleep Disturbance Related to Changing Aircraft Noise Context: Evidence from Tan Son Nhat Airport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The effect of two types of exercise conditioning on hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GNRH) gene expression response to acute noise stress in rats.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Social determinants of dementia: A scoping review.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Evaluation of fetal exposure to environmental noise using a computer-generated model.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Global Burden of Disease from Environmental Factors.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Birth Outcomes among Infants Born between 2006 and 2018 after Maternal Exposure during Pregnancy to Ultrafine Particles from Aviation around a Large International Airport in the Netherlands.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Understanding the association between urban noise and nighttime light in China.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Long-term exposure to air pollution and road traffic noise and incidence of dementia in the Danish Nurse Cohort.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Association of transportation noise with cardiovascular diseases.Clinical cardiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
This systematic review commissioned by the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), considers how the evidence base for noise effects on health has changed following the recent reviews undertaken for the WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines. This systematic review assesses the quality of the evidence for environmental noise effects on mental health, wellbeing, and quality of life; birth and reproductive outcomes; and cognition for papers published since the WHO reviews (mid-2015 to March 2019), as well as for cancer and dementia (January 2014 to March 2019). Using the GRADE methodology (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) most evidence was rated as low quality as opposed to very low quality in the previous reviews. There is now low-quality evidence for a harmful effect of road traffic noise on medication use and interview measures of depression and anxiety and low quality evidence for a harmful effect of road traffic noise, aircraft noise, and railway noise on some cancer outcomes. Many other conclusions from the WHO evidence reviews remain unchanged. The conclusions remain limited by the low number of studies for many outcomes. The quantification of health effects for other noise sources including wind turbine, neighbour, industrial, and combined noise remains a research priority.
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