Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health

Summary Noise is pervasive in everyday life and can cause both auditory and non-auditory health effects. Noise-induced hearing loss remains highly prevalent in occupational settings, and is increasingly caused by social noise exposure (eg, through personal music players). Our understanding of molecu...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2014-04, Vol.383 (9925), p.1325-1332
Main Authors: Basner, Mathias, Dr, Babisch, Wolfgang, PhD, Davis, Adrian, Prof, Brink, Mark, PhD, Clark, Charlotte, PhD, Janssen, Sabine, PhD, Stansfeld, Stephen, Prof
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Age Factors
Animals
Background noise
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology
Citation indexes
Cognition Disorders - etiology
Cognitive ability
Disease prevention
Ear Protective Devices
Environmental audits
Environmental effects
Environmental Exposure - adverse effects
Exposure
General aspects
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced - diagnosis
Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced - etiology
Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced - prevention & control
Hearing protection
Heart attacks
Hospitals
Humans
Hypertension
Internal Medicine
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Molecular modelling
Mortality
Music
Noise
Noise control
Noise levels
Noise pollution
Noise, Occupational - adverse effects
Occupational diseases
Occupational exposure
Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk Factors
Sleep
Sleep and wakefulness
Sleepiness
Sound
Studies
Tinnitus
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Summary:Summary Noise is pervasive in everyday life and can cause both auditory and non-auditory health effects. Noise-induced hearing loss remains highly prevalent in occupational settings, and is increasingly caused by social noise exposure (eg, through personal music players). Our understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in noise-induced hair-cell and nerve damage has substantially increased, and preventive and therapeutic drugs will probably become available within 10 years. Evidence of the non-auditory effects of environmental noise exposure on public health is growing. Observational and experimental studies have shown that noise exposure leads to annoyance, disturbs sleep and causes daytime sleepiness, affects patient outcomes and staff performance in hospitals, increases the occurrence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and impairs cognitive performance in schoolchildren. In this Review, we stress the importance of adequate noise prevention and mitigation strategies for public health.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61613-X