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Noise emitted from road, rail and air traffic and their effects on sleep

08 Aug 2006-Journal of Sound and Vibration (Academic Press)-Vol. 295, Iss: 1, pp 129-140
TL;DR: The equivalent noise level seems to be a suitable predictor for subjectively evaluated sleep quality but not for physiological sleep disturbances, where physiological sleep parameters were most severely affected by rail noise.
About: This article is published in Journal of Sound and Vibration.The article was published on 2006-08-08. It has received 180 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Noise & Aircraft noise.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Policy-makers and their advisers are provided with technical support in their quantitative risk assessment of environmental noise and can use the procedure for estimating burdens presented here to prioritize and plan environmental and public health policies.
Abstract: The health impacts of environmental noise are a growing concern. At least one million healthy life years are lost every year from traffic-related noise in the western part of Europe. This publication summarises the evidence on the relationship between environmental noise and health effects, including cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, and annoyance. For each one, the environmental burden of disease methodology, based on exposure-response relationship, exposure distribution, background prevalence of disease and disability weights of the outcome, is applied to calculate the burden of disease in terms of disability-adjusted life-years. Data are still lacking for the rest of the WHO European Region. This publication provides policy-makers and their advisers with technical support in their quantitative risk assessment of environmental noise. International, national and local authorities can use the procedure for estimating burdens presented here to prioritize and plan environmental and public health policies.

794 citations

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TL;DR: Evidence from epidemiologic studies demonstrates that environmental noise is associated with an increased incidence of arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, and stroke, and the importance of noise mitigation strategies for public health is stressed.
Abstract: The role of noise as an environmental pollutant and its impact on health are being increasingly recognized. Beyond its effects on the auditory system, noise causes annoyance and disturbs sleep, and it impairs cognitive performance. Furthermore, evidence from epidemiologic studies demonstrates that environmental noise is associated with an increased incidence of arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Both observational and experimental studies indicate that in particular night-time noise can cause disruptions of sleep structure, vegetative arousals (e.g. increases of blood pressure and heart rate) and increases in stress hormone levels and oxidative stress, which in turn may result in endothelial dysfunction and arterial hypertension. This review focuses on the cardiovascular consequences of environmental noise exposure and stresses the importance of noise mitigation strategies for public health.

516 citations

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TL;DR: A considerable body of evidence suggests that these environmental agents induce low-grade inflammation, oxidative stress, vascular dysfunction, and autonomic nervous system imbalance, thereby facilitating the development of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
Abstract: Environmental factors can act as facilitators of chronic non-communicable diseases. Ambient noise and air pollution collectively outrank all other environmental risk factors in importance, contributing to over 75% of the disease and disability burden associated with known environmental risk factors. In the first part of this review, we discussed the global burden and epidemiologic evidence supporting the importance of these novel risk factors as facilitators of cardiometabolic disease. In this part, we will discuss pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for noise and air pollution-mediated effects. Akin to traditional cardiovascular risk factors, a considerable body of evidence suggests that these environmental agents induce low-grade inflammation, oxidative stress, vascular dysfunction, and autonomic nervous system imbalance, thereby facilitating the development of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Through their impact on traditional risk factors and via additional novel mechanisms, environmental risk factors may have much larger impact on cardiovascular events than currently appreciated. In the second part of this review, we discuss deficiencies and gaps in knowledge and opportunities for new research.

234 citations

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01 Jan 2011-Sleep
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of air, road and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperation were investigated for 11 consecutive nights, which included eight noise exposure nights and one noise-free control night.
Abstract: Study Objectives: Traffic noise disturbs sleep and may impair recuperation. There is limited information on single and combined effects of air, road and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperation. Design: Repeated measures Setting: Polysomnographic laboratory study Participants: 72 healthy subjects, mean ± standard deviation 40 ± 13 years, range 18-71 years, 32 male Interventions: Exposure to 40, 80, or 120 rail, road, and/or air traffic noise events Measurements and Results: Subjects were investigated for 11 consecutive nights, which included eight noise exposure nights and one noise-free control night. Noise effects on sleep structure and continuity were subtle, even in nights with combined exposure, most likely due to habituation and an increase in arousal thresholds both within and across nights. However, cardiac arousals did not habituate across nights. Noise exposure significantly affected subjective assessments of sleep quality and recuperation, whereas objective performance was unaffected, except for a small increase in mean PVT reaction time (+4 ms, adjusted P 3 kHz) noise event components. Conclusions: Road, rail, and air traffic noise differentially affect objective and subjective assessments of sleep. Differences in the degree of noise-induced sleep fragmentation between traffic modes were explained by the specific spectral and temporal composition of noise events, indicating potential targets for active and passive noise control. Field studies are needed to validate our findings in a setting with higher ecologic validity.

231 citations


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  • ...Typical for studies on the effects of noise on sleep (Basner & Samel 2005; Griefahn et al. 2006, 2008), amounts of wake and S1 were increased while amounts of SWS and REM were decreased....

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TL;DR: The analysis showed no relationship between neither noise exposure nor response to noise and cardiovascular problems, and showed strong links among pseudoneurological complaints, annoyance and sleeping problems, thus pointing to the importance of including information on psychosomatic disorders and mild psychological problems in future studies looking at potential health effects of noise.

190 citations


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  • ...Laboratory studies have documented immediate effects of traffic noise, such as EEG (Electroencephalographic) arousals, awakenings and sleep stage shifts (Basner et al., 2008) and consequently on overall sleep architecture (Basner and Samel, 2005; Griefahn et al., 2006)....

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  • ..., 2008) and consequently on overall sleep architecture (Basner and Samel, 2005; Griefahn et al., 2006)....

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  • ...reduced subjective sleep quality, changed cortisol levels and reduced performance on reaction time tests (Griefahn et al., 2006; Maschke et al., 2002; Öhrström and Rylander, 1982)....

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  • ...Some of these effects are also observed in subjects after exposure to high levels of nighttime traffic noise, i.e. reduced subjective sleep quality, changed cortisol levels and reduced performance on reaction time tests (Griefahn et al., 2006; Maschke et al., 2002; Öhrström and Rylander, 1982)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new procedure called "noise interrupted method" has been developed to study noise-induced sleep disturbance, where the sounds are reproduced with a mini-disk player which has an automatic reverse function.

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  • ...The brain is able to perceive, to analyse and to respond adequately to acoustic stimuli even during sleep and individuals have been shown to react more to meaningful than to neutral stimuli [7,8]....

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  • ...Type of traffic noise The hypothesis adopted for this study bases firstly on the replicated observation that man responds more likely to meaningful than to neutral noises even during sleep [7,8] and secondly on a meta-analysis according to which aircraft noise annoys most and rail noise the least [2,3]....

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TL;DR: From the above two sets of analyses, sleep latency was the most useful parameter for predicting subjective sleep.

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  • ...Subjective evaluation of sleep The questionnaire for subjective evaluation of sleep is certainly a reliable instrument, as the results are confirmed by the findings of other authors [13,14], in particular by the association between sleep quality and sleep latency, TST, the time spent in S0&1 and the difficulty to fall asleep (indicated by the prolonged latency of SWS)....

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  • ...This study focussed on executive functions which originate in the frontal lobe of the brain and which are prone even to partial sleep deprivation [18,19]....

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  • ...The present results indicate that executive functions are sensitive to even minor sleep disturbances [19]....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a methodical methodical Uber-legung, in which a gedachtniskonsolidierungsprozesse wahrend des Schlafs hauptsachlich im REM-Schlaf (REM - “rapid eye movement”) statt.
Abstract: Zusammenfassung. Nach gangiger Auffassung finden Gedachtniskonsolidierungsprozesse wahrend des Schlafs hauptsachlich im REM-Schlaf (REM - “rapid eye movement”) statt. Die hier dargestellten Befunde und methodischen Uberlegungen zeigen, das dieses Konzept zugunsten einer differenzierteren Sichtweise auf Schlaf-assoziierte Konsolidierungsprozesse revidiert werden mus, die neben den Schlafstadien (REM-Schlaf versus Tiefschlaf) die Art der Gedachtnisleistung (deklaratives versus non-deklaratives Gedachtnis) und die Cortisolfreisetzung des Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrinden-Systems (HHN-System) berucksichtigt. REM-Schlaf findet vor allem in der zweiten Halfte des nachtlichen Schlafs statt, wahrend die erste Halfte durch extensive Tiefschlafphasen gepragt wird. Der Vergleich der Gedachtnisleistung nach Phasen fruhen und spaten Schlafs zeigt, das Konsolidierung sehr viel starker durch die von Tiefschlaf gepragte erste Schlafhalfte als durch die von REM-Schlaf gepragte zweite Schlafhalfte gefordert wird. D...

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"Noise emitted from road, rail and a..." refers background in this paper

  • ...This suits the findings of Born and Plihal [20] who have reported a reduction of declarative memory performance after retention of SWS....

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"Noise emitted from road, rail and a..." refers background in this paper

  • ...This might firstly be related to the shorter rise times of rail noises, to which the organism usually reacts more than to slowly rising levels or to steady states [31], and secondly to the longer lasting periods of relatively high levels along with the characteristic temporal structure of rail noise....

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The equivalent noise level seems to be a suitable predictor for subjectively evaluated sleep quality but not for physiological sleep disturbances.