Traffic-related Noise Exposure and Late-life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Mexican-Americans

Overview

Journal Epidemiology

Specialty Public Health

Date 2021 Feb 8

PMID 33555809

Citations 13

Authors

Yu Yu

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda

Kimberly C Paul

Eunice Lee

Michael Jerrett

Jason Su

Jun Wu

I-Fan Shih

Mary Haan

Beate Ritz

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Abstract

Background: Recently, it has been suggested that environmental exposures from traffic sources including noise may play a role in cognitive impairment in the elderly. The objective of the study was to investigate the association between local traffic-related noise pollution and incident dementia or cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND) during a 10-year follow-up period.

Methods: 1612 Mexican-American participants from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA) were followed every 12-15 months via home visits from 1998 to 2007. We used the SoundPLAN software package to estimate noise originating from local traffic with the input of Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) data from Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) based on geocoded residential addresses at baseline (1998-1999). We estimated the risks of incident dementia or CIND from 24-hour and nighttime noise exposure using Cox proportional hazard models.

Results: During the follow-up, we identified 159 incident dementia or CIND cases in total. Per 11.6 dB (interquartile range width) increase in 24-hour noise, the hazard of developing dementia or CIND increased (hazard ratio = 1.3 [1.0, 1.6]) during follow-up; estimates were slightly lower (hazard ratio = 1.2 [0.97, 1.6]) when adjusting for modeled local air pollution exposure from traffic sources. Overall, the risk of dementia/CIND was elevated when 24-hour and nighttime noise were higher than 75 and 65 dB respectively. See video Abstract: http://links.lww.com/EDE/B728.

Conclusions: In our study, traffic-related noise exposure was associated with increased risk of dementia or CIND in elderly Mexican-Americans. Future studies taking into account other noise sources and occupational noise exposure before retirement are needed.

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