The cost of hypertension-related ill-health attributable to environmental noise

Noise and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 67, 2013, Pages 437-445

  Harding, Anne Helen ^a   Frost, Gillian ^a   Tan, Emma ^a   Tsuchiya, Aki ^b   Mason, Howard ^a  

^a HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; dementia; environmental noise; hypertension; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOISE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK; STROKE;

EID: 84890753302     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.121253     Document Type: Article

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