The association between road traffic noise exposure and blood pressure among children in Germany: The GINIplus and LISAplus studies

Noise and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 64, 2013, Pages 165-172

  Liu, Chuang ^a,b   Fuertes, Elaine ^a,c   Tiesler, Carla M T ^a,d   Birk, Matthias ^a   Babisch, Wolfgang ^e   Bauer, Carl Peter ^f   Koletzko, Sibylle ^d   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; children; nighttime; road traffic noise; windows

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAR; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; SYSTOLE; TRAFFIC NOISE;

AUTOMOBILES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SYSTOLE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878823968     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.112364     Document Type: Article

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