Autonomic Arousals Related to Traffic Noise during Sleep

Abstract

Cardiac responses did not habituate to traffic noise within the night and may therefore play a key role in promoting traffic noise induced cardiovascular disease. If so, these consequences are more likely for responses accompanied by awakenings than for situations without awakenings.

Single and Combined Effects of Air, Road, and Rail Traffic Noise on Sleep and Recuperation

“…The fact that cardiac arousals did not habituate across nights stresses their potential relevance for the genesis of longterm cardiovascular consequences of noise-induced sleep disturbance. 6,8,9 However, the noise-induced changes in heart rate SE refers to standard error; TST, total sleep time; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 after controlling for a false discovery rate, i.e., the expected fraction of null hypotheses rejected mistakenly, of 0.05(*), 0.01(**), and 0.001(***), respectively.…”

Cardiovascular responses to railway noise during sleep in young and middle-aged adults

“…By contrast, other studies have shown that different noise characteristics are of importance to predict the magnitude of the cardiovascular response. Berg et al (1975), Muzet (1980Muzet ( , 1992 and more recently Griefahn et al (2008) reported that significant heart rate increase can be observed even at relatively low noise intensities, indicating that the sleeping subject still perceives the external stimuli even if there is no awareness or memory of it the next day (Muzet 1992). Muzet (1980) showed that, during sleep, intermittent noise induces a rapid increase of heart instantaneous frequency (HIF) followed by a compensatory decrease, and a simultaneous peripheral vasoconstriction (Muzet 1980).…”

Stress recovery during exposure to natural sounds and environmental noise

“…Haralabidis et al (2008) found that noise exposure during sleep elevated the subjects' blood pressure (BP). Similar negative effects of noise during sleep on heart rate (HR) have also been found (Griefahn, Bröde, Marks & Basner, 2007). In awake conditions, Lusk, Hagerty, Gillespie & Ziemba (2004) have shown that BP and HR were positively correlated with noise level (dBA) for industrial labourers, showing the undesirable effects of noise on cardiovascular health during work.…”