Residential exposure to aircraft noise and hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases: multi-airport retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether exposure to aircraft noise increases the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases in older people (≥ 65 years) residing near airports.

Design

Multi-airport retrospective study of approximately 6 million older people residing near airports in the United States. We superimposed contours of aircraft noise levels (in decibels, dB) for 89 airports for 2009 provided by the US Federal Aviation Administration on census block resolution population data to construct two exposure metrics applicable to zip code resolution health insurance data: population weighted noise within each zip code, and 90th centile of noise among populated census blocks within each zip code.

Setting

2218 zip codes surrounding 89 airports in the contiguous stat

SUBMITTER: Correia AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3805481 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature