Long-Term Road Traffic Noise, Air Pollution, and Cardiovascular Disease AIRCARD: A Prospective Cohort Study - PubMed
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Long-term exposure to road traffic noise was significantly associated with increased CVD and all-cause mortality. Our findings suggest that studies that do not consider noise exposure may overestimate the cardiovascular burden attributed to air pollution. (Impact of Lifetime Exposure to Air and Nois …
  • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Yes and no. A 14.9db increase of 85db background noise is big, while a 14.9db increase of 40db background noise certainly is not.

      Decibels is logarithmic and there is little information in this study about environmental ambiance.

      One graph starts at 40db, which indicates data was collected at roughly the noise level of a refrigerator. A casual conversation would roughly qualify as “noise.”

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Sorry to be that guy but…

    Danish study warns traffic noise is killing people correlates with increased mortality

    It’s worth emphasizing that people are probably not being killed directly by noise. People who live near car noise probably live near cars. I imagine these cars are killing people more by violence, pollution/particulate, etc. than by noise alone.