ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2021
Transportation noise and risk of stroke: a nationwide prospective cohort study covering Denmark.
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- Exposure-response relationship between transportation noise and cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Noise and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Diseases: a Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Acute Exposure to Simulated Nocturnal Train Noise Leads to Impaired Sleep Quality and Endothelial Dysfunction in Young Healthy Men and Women: A Sex-Specific Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
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- Road traffic noise and incident ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
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- Environmental determinants of cerebral haemorrhage in older adults: behavioural pathways and population health implications.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Urban environmental noise and depression causal pathway: Potential role of chronic conditions as mediator.PloS one · 2025Article
- Road traffic noise and breast cancer: DNA methylation in four core circadian genes.Clinical epigenetics · 2024Article
- Impact of air pollution and noise exposure on cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Long term exposure to road traffic noise and air pollution and risk of infertility in men and women: nationwide Danish cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Birth Cohort Studies of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution in Early Life and Development of Asthma in Children and Adolescents from Denmark.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2024Article
- Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Health position paper and redox perspectives - Disease burden by transportation noise.Redox biology · 2024Review
- Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal traffic noise and cardiovascular complications and sleep disturbance-results from a pooled analysis of human field studies.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2023Article
- Concomitant exposure to air pollution, green space, and noise and risk of stroke: a cohort study from Denmark.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Article
- Long-term aircraft noise exposure and risk of hypertension in postmenopausal women.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Transportation Noise and Risk of Tinnitus: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Denmark.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudies on transportation noise and incident stroke are few and inconclusive. We aimed to investigate associations between road-traffic and railway noise and the risk of incident stroke in the entire Danish population.
methodsWe estimated road-traffic and railway noise (Lden) at the most and least exposed façades for all residential addresses across Denmark (2.8 million) for the period 1990-2017. Based on this, we estimated the 10-year time-weighted mean noise exposure for 3.6 million Danes aged >35 years, of whom 184 523 developed incident stroke during follow-up from 2000 to 2017. Analyses were conducted using Cox proportional-hazards models, with adjustment for various individual- and area-level demographic and socio-economic covariates collected from registries and air pollution [fine particulate matter with particles with a diameter of ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)].
resultsA 10-dB increase in the 10-year mean road-traffic noise at the most exposed façade was associated with an incidence rate ratio (IRR) of 1.04 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.03-1.05] for all strokes. For road-traffic noise at the least exposed façade, the IRR per 10 dB was 1.03 (95% CI: 1.02-1.04) for all strokes. Railway noise was not associated with a higher risk of stroke.
conclusionRoad-traffic noise increased the risk of stroke. These findings add to the evidence of road-traffic noise as a cardiovascular risk factor.
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