The associations between traffic-related air pollution and noise with blood pressure in children: Results from the GINIplus and LISAplus studies

Liu, Chuang; Fuertes, Elaine; Tiesler, Carla M. T.; Birk, Matthias; Babisch, Wolfgang; Bauer, Carl‐Peter; Koletzko, Sibylle; Berg, Andrea von; Hoffmann, Barbara; Heinrich, Joachim

doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2013.09.008

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“…Results from several studies confirm that children living in a noisy environment have lower cognitive performance [6,7], show frequent reading problems [8,9], exhibit lower mathematical skills [10,11], and impaired memory [8,12]. It has also been shown that exposure to environmental noise may increase the prevalence of hypertension in the case of children [13][14][15][16][17]. At least 30% of the European Union (EU) population live in areas where day-night average of road traffic noise level exceeds 55 dB [18].…”

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Impact of road traffic noise on sleep disturbances and attention disorders amongst school children living in Upper Silesian Industrial Zone, Poland

Skrzypek

Kowalska

Czech

et al. 2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: Published reports suggest that some adverse health impact may be related to noise exposure, and motor vehicle traffic is considered to be the main source of environmental hazard of noise. The aim of this study has been to assess an association between occurrence of sleep and attention disorders with exposure to the noise generated by motor vehicle traffic in the case of a large group of children living in an urban environment. Material and Methods: The data was obtained using a cross sectional study design in Bytom (Silesia, Poland) from 2003-2007 for a selected group of 7-14 year olds (N = 5136). The geographic information system was used for assessing the exposure to noise generated by the motor vehicle traffic. The association between occurrences of sleep disturbances or attention disorders and exposure to the traffic noise was examined by means of multivariable logistic regression. Results: Sleep disturbances and attention disorders were found to be statistically significantly associated with exposure to the traffic noise. The multivariable logistic regression results suggest that sleep disturbances and attention disorders were more likely to occur in the case of children living in the area with higher traffic density, the odds ratio (OR) = 1.44 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.05-1.97) and 1.38 (95% CI: 1.03-1.86), respectively. Conclusions: The results of the study have confirmed that the exposure to the traffic noise could be a significant risk factor for sleep disturbances and attention disorders among children. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(3):511-520

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Impact of road traffic noise on sleep disturbances and attention disorders amongst school children living in Upper Silesian Industrial Zone, Poland

Skrzypek

Kowalska

Czech

et al. 2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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“…Moreover, many studies have been done on the relationship between noise pollution and detrimental health impacts [3][4][5]. One of the most important is noise annoyance [6].…”

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A virtual perception method for urban noise: The calculation of noise annoyance threshold and facial emotion expression in the virtual noise scene

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“…The rapid rise of mobility, with longer times spent by people in traffic, causes, in fact, more accidents, noise, air pollution, and fuel consumption [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] that recently are going to be reduced, only to a limited degree, by means of technological improvements and infrastructural measures like, for example, roundabouts [12,13]. On the other side, the link between noise, pollution, and human health has been clearly established [14][15][16][17][18]. Recently, an analysis of 22 European cohorts, has studied the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-caused mortality [19], while the Italian National Institute for Cancer Research (Italian acronym: AIRC), carried out an evaluation about the so-called "urban effects", where a significant increase of risk for contracting tumors in the lungs for people living in the city (about 20%-40%) was observed.…”

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An Integrated Environmental Indicator for Urban Transportation Systems: Description and Application

Gennusa¹,

Ferrante²,

Casto³

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Abstract:A simplified version of the ecological footprint method is proposed for assessing the environmental performances of urban transportation systems. The method, starting from the knowledge of the composition of the running vehicular fleet, is here applied to a southern Italian province. It represents a synthetic indicator of the environmental pressure exerted by the system also matching the pollutant emissions with the carrying capacity of the site. Particularly, the forested area needed to absorb the CO2 emissions of the system is compared with the total forested area of the province. The results of the case-study indicates the yearly maximum distance that each vehicle of the fleet can cover in order for their emissions to be absorbed by the surrounding forested area. Specifically, if all cars of the fleet would travel for 10,000 km/year, 97% of the forested area would be involved. Thanks to its features, this indicator can be usefully adopted for ranking different transportation options. Therefore, it could allow local administrations to environmentally hierarchize alternative plans concerning urban transportation choices.

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The associations between traffic-related air pollution and noise with blood pressure in children: Results from the GINIplus and LISAplus studies

Cited by 84 publications

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Impact of road traffic noise on sleep disturbances and attention disorders amongst school children living in Upper Silesian Industrial Zone, Poland

Impact of road traffic noise on sleep disturbances and attention disorders amongst school children living in Upper Silesian Industrial Zone, Poland

A virtual perception method for urban noise: The calculation of noise annoyance threshold and facial emotion expression in the virtual noise scene

An Integrated Environmental Indicator for Urban Transportation Systems: Description and Application

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