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Long-term exposure to residential transportation noise and mortality:A nationwide cohort study
- Source :
- Sørensen, M, Raaschou-Nielsen, O, Poulsen, A H, Hvidtfeldt, U A, Brandt, J, Khan, J, Jensen, S S, Münzel, T & Thacher, J D 2023, ' Long-term exposure to residential transportation noise and mortality : A nationwide cohort study ', Environmental Pollution, vol. 328, 121642 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121642
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Studies have indicated that transportation noise is associated with higher cardiovascular mortality, whereas evidence of noise as a risk factor for respiratory and cancer mortality is scarce and inconclusive. Also, knowledge on effects of low-level noise on mortality is very limited. We aimed to investigate associations between road and railway noise and natural-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Danish population. We estimated address-specific road and railway noise at the most (LdenMax) and least (LdenMin) exposed façades for all residential addresses in Denmark from 1990 to 2017 using high-quality exposure models. Using these data, we calculated 10-year time-weighted mean noise exposure for 2.6 million Danes aged >50 years, of whom 600,492 died from natural causes during a mean follow-up of 11.7 years. We analyzed data using Cox proportional hazards models with adjustment for individual and area-level sociodemographic variables and air pollution (PM2.5 and NO2). We found that a 10-year mean exposure to road LdenMax and road LdenMin per 10 dB were associated with hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) of, respectively, 1.09 (1.09; 1.10) and 1.10 (1.10; 1.11) for natural-cause mortality, 1.09 (1.08; 1.10) and 1.09 (1.08; 1.10) for cardiovascular mortality, 1.13 (1.12; 1.14) and 1.17 (1.16; 1.19) for respiratory mortality and 1.03 (1.02; 1.03) and 1.06 (1.05; 1.07) for cancer mortality. For LdenMax, the associations followed linear exposure-response relationships from 35 dB to 60–
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sørensen, M, Raaschou-Nielsen, O, Poulsen, A H, Hvidtfeldt, U A, Brandt, J, Khan, J, Jensen, S S, Münzel, T & Thacher, J D 2023, ' Long-term exposure to residential transportation noise and mortality : A nationwide cohort study ', Environmental Pollution, vol. 328, 121642 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121642
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- edsair.doi.dedup.....658283e4b30f2858846834d39d93e4f6