If you live near a busy road, you might feel like the constant sound of roaring engines, honking horns and wailing sirens makes your blood pressure rise. Now a new study published today in JACC Advances confirms it can do ...
Mar 22, 2023
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The lockdown measures imposed in March 2020 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented declines in air pollution, noise and physical activity levels in cities. The consequences of these changes for people's health ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Sleeping safe and sound is one of human's most fundamental needs to stay reenergized and maintain our bodily functions. How does hearing environmental sounds influence our sleeping quality? Assistant Professor Junta Tagusari ...
Aug 4, 2021
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In a current opinion article "Reduction of environmental pollutants for prevention of cardiovascular disease: it's time to act," published in the European Heart Journal this week, a group of international environmental researchers ...
Nov 6, 2020
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Transport noise is a major problem in Europe, with over 100 million people living in areas where road traffic noise exceeds levels greater than 55dB, the health-based threshold set by the EU. A new study by the University ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Long-term exposure to environmental noise—think planes, trains, and automobiles—has been linked in multiple studies to adverse health effects such as poor sleep, psychiatric disorders, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Exposure to environmental noise appears to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes by fueling the activity of a brain region involved in stress response. This response in turn promotes blood vessel inflammation, according ...
Nov 5, 2018
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The World Health Organisation recently published its latest noise pollution guidelines for Europe. The guidelines recommend outdoor noise levels that should not be exceeded for aircraft, road and rail noise and two new sources: ...
Oct 22, 2018
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Noise may disrupt the body on the cellular level in a way that increases the risk of common heart disease risk factors, according to a review topic published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that ...
Feb 5, 2018
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Could sleeping next to a noisy street put our future at risk?
Jun 28, 2017
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