Cardiovascular diseases in Europe

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Scope
Cardiovascular morbidity/mortality describes

Description

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has been associated with noise as well as with air pollution. Cardiovascular morbidity can include a variety of related endpoints including hypertension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction etc.

References

• Van Kempen et al (2005), Selection and evaluation of exposure-effectrelationships for health impact assessment in the field of noise and health
• Van Kempen et al (2002) The association between noise exposure and blood pressure and ischemic heart disease: a meta-analysis

Definition

Causality

List of parents:

• Air pollution exposure
• Noise exposure

Formula

A relative risk of noise exposure per 5 dB(A)and the prevalence of hypertension of 1.26 (95% CI 1.14-1.39) was chosen