Noise exposure and children's blood pressure and heart rate: The RANCH project

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 632-639

  Van Kempen, E ^a   Van Kamp, I ^a   Fischer, P ^a   Davies, H ^b   Houthuijs, D ^a   Stellato, R ^a   Clark, C ^b   Stansfeld, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD;

AIRCRAFT; AUTOMOBILES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SCHOOLS;

EID: 33748481973     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.026831     Document Type: Article

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