Traffic noise and blood pressure in low-socioeconomic status, African-American urban schoolchildren

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1403-1406

  Belojevic, Goran ^a   Evans, Gary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS INDEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDIES; LIVING ROOM; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE LEVELS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAFFIC NOISE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CAR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC NOISE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ENGLAND; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84866276415     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4739449     Document Type: Article

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