Acute effects of night-time noise exposure on blood pressure in populations living near airports

by Alexandros S. Haralabidis, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Federica Vigna-Taglianti, Matteo Giampaolo, Alessandro Borgini, Marie-Louise Dudley, Göran Pershagen,

Gösta Bluhm, Danny Houthuijs, Wolfgang Babisch, Manolis Velonakis, Klea Katsouyanni, and Lars Jarup

EHJVolume 29(5):658-664

March 1, 2008

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Box plots of the various noise indicators measured during the study night.

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Centre-specific and pooled effect estimates of a 5 dB(A) increment in the equivalent noise level of 15 min (red) and 1 min (blue) before blood pressure (BP) measurement on diastolic BP.

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Centre-specific and pooled effect estimates on diastolic blood pressure (BP) and its 95% confidence Interval (CI) associated with an increase of 5 dB in LAmax of aircraft event (red), of

road traffic event (blue) and of indoor event (black) during night-time sleep (source-specific event identified as present if indoor measured LAmax >35 dB).

Alexandros S. Haralabidis et al. Eur Heart J 2008;29:658-664

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