Associations between nighttime traffic noise and sleep: The Finnish public sector study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1391-1396

  Halonen, Jaana I ^a   Vahtera, Jussi ^a,b   Stansfeld, Stephen ^c   Yli Tuomi, Tarja ^d   Salo, Paula ^a,b   Pentti, Jaana ^a   Kivimäki, Mika ^a,e   Lanki, Timo ^d  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Epidemiology; Sleep disturbance; Traffic nois

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; NOISE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TRAFFIC NOISE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; CITIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867299003     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205026     Document Type: Article

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