Road traffic noise and hypertension - Accounting for the location of rooms

Environmental Research

Volumn 133, Issue , 2014, Pages 380-387

  Babisch, Wolfgang ^a   Wölke, Gabriele ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^b   Straff, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daytime versus night time; Hypertension; Length of residence; Living room versus bedroom; Road traffic noise; Room orientation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; HYPERTENSION; NOISE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENT POPULATION; ROAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAY LENGTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHT; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SELF REPORT; TRAFFIC NOISE;

DAYTIME VERSUS NIGHT-TIME; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF RESIDENCE; LIVING ROOM VERSUS BEDROOM; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; ROOM ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; BERLIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE;

EID: 84904988556     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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