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

Tassi, Patricia; Saremi, Mahnaz; Schimchowitsch, Sarah; Eschenlauer, Arnaud; Rohmer, Odile; Muzet, Alain

doi:10.1007/s00421-009-1270-8

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“…[37,38] Thus, the FPA is also included in experimental studies on cardiovascular risks due to noise and shows unambiguous responses to noise stimuli. [39,40] A hypothetic, but biologically highly plausible model based on the general stress concept was put forward years ago connecting vascular responses to noise with prognostic conclusions regarding the development of CVDs. [41] As expected, the study results show a clear reduction of the FPA for all subjects during the noise exposure.…”

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Patterns of physiological and affective responses to vehicle pass-by noises

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Traffic noise is considered causing annoyance and severe health effects like cardiovascular disease (CVD). The present laboratory study examines the importance of individual factors, namely age, gender and personality traits on short term physiological and affective response to vehicle pass-by noises. Four groups of subjects (20-30 vs. 40-55 year-old male or female, n = 66 in total) were exposed to a series of vehicle pass-by noises. Physiological responses (finger-pulse amplitude [FPA], skin conductance level [SCL]) were registered during the exposure; affective responses and judgements regarding the sounds were assessed by questionnaires. Noise sensitivity and sensation seeking were measured by validated questionnaires. The results show different patterns of response depending on age, gender and personality. The strongest sympathetic stress reaction as measured by SCL was found for the older female group. In regression analysis, the SCL response was predicted by the female gender and low score of sensation seeking only (adjusted R2 = 0.139). The FPA response was strongest among the young men and age was the only significant predictor. For affective responses of pleasantness and activation, regression analysis proved noise sensitivity and sensation seeking to be significant predictors (adjusted R2 = 0.187 respectively 0.154). Age, gender and personality influence physiological and affective reactions to traffic noise, which might affect health conditions. Especially, a potential risk of older women for CVD owing to noise should be investigated further. Individual sensitiveness in terms of noise sensitivity or sensation seeking proves to be important for explaining differences in response to noise.

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Patterns of physiological and affective responses to vehicle pass-by noises

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“…Short-term noise exposure leads to increase of the sympathetic activity (12), so does the long-term noise exposure, probably by increased sympathetic activity or mild cardiovascular dysregulation, that leads to increased risk of myocardial infarction development (13), to three-times increased risk of stroke and 60% increased risk of sudden cardiovascular death (14). Sympathetic hyperactivity has been observed in connection with noise exposure (15,16). Shift work is characterized by disturbing the circadian rhythm of ANS due to requirement of increased sympathetic activity during expecting rest-time (12), reducing the total HRV (17, 18) and significant increasing the LF/HF ratio (18).…”

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Analysis of Autonomic Nervous System Functional Age and Heart Rate Variability in Mine Workers

Vasicko

Prindesova-Busikova

Osina

2016

Acta Medica Martiniana

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Introduction: Heavy working conditions and many unpropitious factors influencing workers health participate in development of various health disorders, among other autonomic cardiovascular regulation malfunction. The aim of this study is to draw a comparison of autonomic nervous system functional age and heart rate variability changes between workers with and without mining occupational exposure.Material and methods: Short term HRV was measured by DiANS PF8 device in men with and without occupational mining exposure (exposure for 10 years at least) using standard orthoclinostathic protocol (each phase 300 sec or 300 heartbeats if heart rate under 60 bpm), excluding those with severe cardiovascular, metabolic, or psychiatric diseases, nicotine and other drugs abuse, as well as those, who underwent heavy stress situation during last year.Results: Evaluating 41 HRV records among miners (n=24, age 47.9 ± 6.1 years, exposure 22.5 ± 5 years) and non-miners (n=17, age 48.5 ± 6.9 years) we found significantly increased difference between functional age of ANS and calendar age in miners group (+7.2 ± 7.3 years) over against the non-miners group (-1.6 ± 6.5 years). No correlation was found between exposure duration and functional age of ANS difference. Analysis of HRV parameters show significant reduction in total spectral power, LF, HF and rMSSD in mine workers above 48 years of age. Discussion and conclusion: Our results show that influence of occupational work factors from mining exposure can clearly take part in worsening the reactivity of ANS, which can be associated with greater risk of developing mostly cardiovascular diseases. It is important to think of non-occupational factors improving or deteriorating ANS reactivity and of individual sensitivity to other external factors.

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“…The Multinomial Logit (MNL) Model (Tassi et al, 2010) presented in Equation (1) was used to calculate transfer percentages from existing PT services to SkyCabs.…”

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Investigation of SkyCabs Monorail System in Urban Regions

Ceder¹,

Roberts²,

Schermbrucker³

2014

GEP

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The increased popularity of the private vehicle and the low budgets available to public-transport (PT) planners has meant that PT patronage has decreased significantly from what it once was. This has led to congestion and pollution problems in many cities around the world. It is thus apparent that new, high quality and sustainable PT system is needed to open the opportunity to attract more people to use PT. This work describes such a system called SkyCabs. The SkyCabs concept is comprised of many, lightweight, driverless cabs running two ways on a single elevated monobeam. With each cab seating up to eight people, the aim is to create a feeling of personal travel, and in doing so increase the level of patronage on PT services. The SkyCabs system is investigated based on the following three criteria; a comparative analysis which involves researching and comparing system characteristics, a computer simulation analysing operational feasibility and an economic analysis which involves calculating and comparing the benefit-cost ratios for each mode analysed. A background section has been included to provide information on existing PT modes which have been compared to SkyCabs throughout this work. The SkyCabs concept has been deemed feasible within an urban context such as the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. This finding is based on a comparison with other options investigated and it is due to SkyCabs favourable characteristics, the high level of service offered and the low cost of implementation relative to return benefits.

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

Cited by 28 publications

References 37 publications

Patterns of physiological and affective responses to vehicle pass-by noises

Patterns of physiological and affective responses to vehicle pass-by noises

Analysis of Autonomic Nervous System Functional Age and Heart Rate Variability in Mine Workers

Investigation of SkyCabs Monorail System in Urban Regions

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