[Noise Annoyance in the German General Population : Prevalence and Determinants in the Gutenberg Health Study]

Overview

Journal Herz

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2021 Aug 13

PMID 34387703

Citations 3

Authors

Omar Hahad

Manfred Beutel

Matthias Michal

Andreas Schulz

Norbert Pfeiffer

Emilio Gianicolo

Karl Lackner

Philipp Wild

Andreas Daiber

Thomas Munzel

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Background: Noise annoyance, especially from traffic noise, is a massive problem in the population and is associated with impaired health.

Objective: Based on data from the population representative Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), the prevalence of noise annoyance from different sources and relevant determinants were identified.

Material And Methods: The GHS is a population-based, prospective cohort study in Germany that included subjects aged 35-74 years. In the study 15,010 participants from the city of Mainz and the district of Mainz-Bingen were asked from 2007 to 2012 to what extent they had recently felt annoyed by aircraft, road, rail, industrial and neighborhood noise (answers ranged from not at all to extremely). A distinction was made between noise annoyance during the day and during sleep. To examine the relationships between sociodemographic variables, cardiovascular risk factors as well as diseases and noise annoyance, multivariable logistic regression models were used.

Results: Approximately 80% of the participants felt annoyed by noise. Aircraft noise annoyance during the day was the predominant source of noise annoyance with the highest prevalence of strongly (9.6%) and extremely annoyed participants (5.4%), followed by road traffic (strongly 4.0% and extremely 1.6%) and neighborhood noise annoyance (strongly 3.5% and extremely 1.3%). Noise annoyance tended to decrease with increasing age. Relevant determinants of noise annoyance included gender, age, socioeconomic status, depression, anxiety disorder, sleep disorder and atrial fibrillation.

Conclusion: Noise annoyance is common in the population and is associated with sociodemographic variables, cardiovascular risk factors and diseases.

Citing Articles

Noise annoyance and cardiovascular disease risk: results from a 10-year follow-up study.

Hahad O, Gilan D, Michal M, Tuscher O, Chalabi J, Schuster A Sci Rep. 2024; 14(1):5619.

PMID: 38454061 PMC: 10920781. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56250-8.

Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal traffic noise and cardiovascular complications and sleep disturbance-results from a pooled analysis of human field studies.

Hahad O, Schmidt F, Hubner J, Foos P, Al-Kindi S, Schmitt V Clin Res Cardiol. 2023; 112(11):1690-1698.

PMID: 37695527 PMC: 10584703. DOI: 10.1007/s00392-023-02297-y.

Noise annoyance and risk of prevalent and incident atrial fibrillation-A sex-specific analysis.

Hahad O, Beutel M, Gilan D, Chalabi J, Schuster A, Gianicolo E Front Public Health. 2022; 10:1061328.

PMID: 36536776 PMC: 9758722. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1061328.

References

Hahad O, Kroller-Schon S, Daiber A, Munzel T . The Cardiovascular Effects of Noise. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2019; 116(14):245-250. PMC: 6541745. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2019.0245. View

Hahad O, Prochaska J, Daiber A, Muenzel T . Environmental Noise-Induced Effects on Stress Hormones, Oxidative Stress, and Vascular Dysfunction: Key Factors in the Relationship between Cerebrocardiovascular and Psychological Disorders. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2019; 2019:4623109. PMC: 6878772. DOI: 10.1155/2019/4623109. View

Munzel T, Kroller-Schon S, Oelze M, Gori T, Schmidt F, Steven S . Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Traffic Noise with a Focus on Nighttime Noise and the New WHO Noise Guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health. 2020; 41:309-328. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-081519-062400. View

Babisch W . The Noise/Stress Concept, Risk Assessment and Research Needs. Noise Health. 2003; 4(16):1-11. View

Babisch W . Stress hormones in the research on cardiovascular effects of noise. Noise Health. 2003; 5(18):1-11. View

Babisch W . Cardiovascular effects of noise. Noise Health. 2011; 13(52):201-4. DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.80148. View

Basner M, Babisch W, Davis A, Brink M, Clark C, Janssen S . Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health. Lancet. 2013; 383(9925):1325-1332. PMC: 3988259. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61613-X. View

Munzel T, Gori T, Babisch W, Basner M . Cardiovascular effects of environmental noise exposure. Eur Heart J. 2014; 35(13):829-36. PMC: 3971384. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu030. View

Osborne M, Radfar A, Hassan M, Abohashem S, Oberfeld B, Patrich T . A neurobiological mechanism linking transportation noise to cardiovascular disease in humans. Eur Heart J. 2019; 41(6):772-782. PMC: 7006229. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz820. View

10.

Ndrepepa A, Twardella D . Relationship between noise annoyance from road traffic noise and cardiovascular diseases: a meta-analysis. Noise Health. 2011; 13(52):251-9. DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.80163. View

11.

Wild P, Zeller T, Beutel M, Blettner M, Dugi K, Lackner K . [The Gutenberg Health Study]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2012; 55(6-7):824-9. DOI: 10.1007/s00103-012-1502-7. View

12.

Beutel M, Junger C, Klein E, Wild P, Lackner K, Blettner M . Noise Annoyance Is Associated with Depression and Anxiety in the General Population- The Contribution of Aircraft Noise. PLoS One. 2016; 11(5):e0155357. PMC: 4873188. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155357. View

13.

Hahad O, Beutel M, Gori T, Schulz A, Blettner M, Pfeiffer N . Annoyance to different noise sources is associated with atrial fibrillation in the Gutenberg Health Study. Int J Cardiol. 2018; 264:79-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.126. View

14.

Wolf K, Kraus U, Dzolan M, Bolte G, Lakes T, Schikowski T . [Nighttime transportation noise annoyance in Germany: personal and regional differences in the German National Cohort Study]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2020; 63(3):332-343. DOI: 10.1007/s00103-020-03094-y. View

15.

Laussmann D, Haftenberger M, Lampert T, Scheidt-Nave C . [Social inequities regarding annoyance to noise and road traffic intensity: results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1)]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2013; 56(5-6):822-31. DOI: 10.1007/s00103-013-1668-7. View

16.

Babisch W, Houthuijs D, Pershagen G, Cadum E, Katsouyanni K, Velonakis M . Annoyance due to aircraft noise has increased over the years--results of the HYENA study. Environ Int. 2009; 35(8):1169-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2009.07.012. View

17.

Guski R . Personal and social variables as co-determinants of noise annoyance. Noise Health. 2003; 1(3):45-56. View

18.

van Kamp I, Job R, Hatfield J, Haines M, Stellato R, Stansfeld S . The role of noise sensitivity in the noise-response relation: a comparison of three international airport studies. J Acoust Soc Am. 2005; 116(6):3471-9. DOI: 10.1121/1.1810291. View

19.

Jakovljevic B, Paunovic K, Belojevic G . Road-traffic noise and factors influencing noise annoyance in an urban population. Environ Int. 2008; 35(3):552-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2008.10.001. View

20.

Beutel M, Brahler E, Ernst M, Klein E, Reiner I, Wiltink J . Noise annoyance predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance 5 years later. Findings from the Gutenberg Health Study. Eur J Public Health. 2020; 30(3):516-521. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa015. View