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Environ Epidemiol. 2019 Feb 12;3(1):e037. doi: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000037. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Indoor and outdoor road traffic noise and incident diabetes mellitus: Results from a longitudinal German cohort study.

Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Simone Ohlwein, Frauke Hennig, Sarah Lucht, Clara Matthiessen, Noreen Pundt, Susanne Moebus, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Barbara Hoffmann

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  2. Centre of Urban Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
  3. Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

PMID: 33778334 PMCID: PMC7952109 DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000037

Abstract

Road traffic noise affects a large number of people in urbanized areas. Recent epidemiological evidence indicates that environmental noise exposure may not only be associated with cardiovascular but also with cardio-metabolic outcomes. This prospective cohort study investigated the effect of outdoor and indoor residential road traffic noise on incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

METHODS: We used data from 3,396 participants of age 45-75 years of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study being non-diabetic at baseline (2000-2003). T2DM was defined via blood glucose level, incident intake of an anti-diabetic drug during follow-up or self-reported physician diagnosis at follow-up examination (2005-2008). Weighted 24-h (L

RESULTS: A 10-dB(A) increase in outdoor road traffic noise (L

CONCLUSIONS: Our analyses suggest that long-term exposure to indoor and outdoor road traffic noise may increase the risk of developing T2DM, independent of air pollution exposure.

Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of Environmental Epidemiology. All rights reserved.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest with regard to the content of this report.

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