SynthesisEuropean journal of public health2023
Environmental noise exposure and health outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
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- Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies Addressing Environmental Noise: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Expert perspectives on exposure-response functions for urban health policy: Lessons from a UBDPolicy workshop.Environmental research · 2026Review
- Resident-side health information for identifying community noise risks in digital public health governance.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2025Article
- Impact of Residential Noise Exposure on Neurological Health: A Systematic Scoping Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 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
- Road traffic noise and incident ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Aberrant static and dynamic functional network connectivity in patients with noise-induced hearing loss.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Blunted Blood Pressure Dipping During Night Shift Work: Does It Matter? Can We Intervene?American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Projecting the economic burden of health impacts of aircraft noise: a case study of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Different considerations in economic impacts of aircraft noise.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
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- Low-Frequency Sound-Insulation Performance of Labyrinth-Type Helmholtz and Thin-Film Compound Acoustic Metamaterial.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social and environmental stressors of cardiometabolic health.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Assessment of Noise Levels and Perceptions of Its Health Impact at Kejetia Market in Ghana.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2024Article
- Evaluation of noise pollution impact on health in Dhaka city, Bangladesh.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundEnvironmental noise is becoming increasingly recognized as an urgent public health problem, but the quality of current studies needs to be assessed. To evaluate the significance, validity and potential biases of the associations between environmental noise exposure and health outcomes.
methodsWe conducted an umbrella review of the evidence across meta-analyses of environmental noise exposure and any health outcomes. A systematic search was done until November 2021. PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and references of eligible studies were searched. Quality was assessed by AMSTAR and Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE).
resultsOf the 31 unique health outcomes identified in 23 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, environmental noise exposure was more likely to result in a series of adverse outcomes. Five percent were moderate in methodology quality, the rest were low to very low and the majority of GRADE evidence was graded as low or even lower. The group with occupational noise exposure had the largest risk increment of speech frequency [relative risk (RR): 6.68; 95% confidence interval (CI): 3.41-13.07] and high-frequency (RR: 4.46; 95% CI: 2.80-7.11) noise-induced hearing loss. High noise exposure from different sources was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (34%) and its mortality (12%), elevated blood pressure (58-72%), diabetes (23%) and adverse reproductive outcomes (22-43%). In addition, the dose-response relationship revealed that the risk of diabetes, ischemic heart disease (IHD), cardiovascular (CV) mortality, stroke, anxiety and depression increases with increasing noise exposure.
conclusionsAdverse associations were found for CV disease and mortality, diabetes, hearing impairment, neurological disorders and adverse reproductive outcomes with environmental noise exposure in humans, especially occupational noise. The studies mostly showed low quality and more high-quality longitudinal study designs are needed for further validation in the future.
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