Aircraft Noise and the Risk of Stroke

[摘要] The health effects of noise are a highly relevant problem for the population. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the European Union and Western Europe the number of healthy life years lost due to environmental noise exceeds one million (disability-adjusted life years, DALYs) ( 1 ). Environmental noise-related sleep disturbances are presumably the greatest problem with more than 900 000 DALYs; the WHO report estimates that noise-related ischemic heart disease accounts for 61 000 DALYs. The WHO report does not provide a corresponding estimate for cerebrovascular events. Furthermore, the various individual sources of noise are not considered separately in the WHO report.

[学科分类] 医学（综合）