Is aircraft noise exposure associated with cardiovascular disease and hypertension? Results from a cohort study in Athens, Greece

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 830-837

  Dimakopoulou, Konstantina ^a   Koutentakis, Konstantinos ^a   Papageorgiou, Ifigeneia ^a   Kasdagli, Maria Iosifina ^a   Haralabidis, Alexandros S ^a   Sourtzi, Panayota ^b   Samoli, Evangelia ^a   Houthuijs, Danny ^c   Swart, Wim ^c   Hansell, Anna L ^d,e   Katsouyanni, Klea ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft noise; Cardiovascular diseases; Cohort study; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT NOISE; AIRPORT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAFFIC NOISE; AGED; AIRCRAFT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; HOUSING; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE;

AGED; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE;

EID: 85020748188     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2016-104180     Document Type: Article

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