Associations between Traffic Noise, Particulate Air Pollution, Hypertension, and Isolated Systolic Hypertension in Adults: The KORA Study
Author(s) -
Wolfgang Babisch,
Kathrin Wolf,
Markus Petz,
Joachim Heinrich,
Josef Cyrys,
Annette Peters
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1306981
Subject(s) - medicine , traffic noise , odds ratio , blood pressure , noise (video) , environmental health , population , noise pollution , air pollution , epidemiology , odds , demography , logistic regression , noise reduction , biology , ecology , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , image (mathematics)
Studies on the association between traffic noise and cardiovascular diseases have rarely considered air pollution as a covariate in the analyses. Isolated systolic hypertension has not yet been in the focus of epidemiological noise research.
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