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Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Traffic Noise with a Focus on Nighttime Noise and the New WHO Noise Guidelines.

  • Münzel T Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Kröller-Schön S Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Oelze M Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Gori T Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Schmidt FP Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Steven S Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Hahad O Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Röösli M Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
  • Wunderli JM Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
  • Daiber A Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; email: tmuenzel@uni-mainz.de.
  • Sørensen M Diet, Genes and Environment Unit, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • 2020-01-11
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  • Annual review of public health. - 2020
English Exposure to traffic noise is associated with stress and sleep disturbances. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently concluded that road traffic noise increases the risk for ischemic heart disease and potentially other cardiometabolic diseases, including stroke, obesity, and diabetes. The WHO report focused on whole-day noise exposure, but new epidemiological and translational field noise studies indicate that nighttime noise, in particular,is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) through increased levels of stress hormones and vascular oxidative stress, leading to endothelial dysfunction and subsequent development of various CVDs. Novel experimental studies found noise to be associated with oxidative stress-induced vascular and brain damage, mediated by activation of the NADPH oxidase, uncoupling of endothelial and neuronal nitric oxide synthase, and vascular/brain infiltration with inflammatory cells. Noise-induced pathophysiology was more pronounced in response to nighttime as compared with daytime noise. This review focuses on the consequences of nighttime noise.
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