Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a Danish Nurse Cohort study.

Background: Long-term road traffic noise exposure is linked to cardio-metabolic disease morbidity, whereas evidence on mortality remains limited.

Objectives: We investigated association of long-term exposure to road traffic noise with all-cause and cause-specific mortality.

Methods: We linked 22,858 females from the Danish Nurse Cohort (DNC), recruited into the Danish Register of Causes of Death up to 2014.

Long-term exposure to low levels of air pollution and mortality adjusting for road traffic noise: A Danish Nurse Cohort study.

Background: The association between air pollution and mortality is well established, yet some uncertainties remain: there are few studies that account for road traffic noise exposure or that consider in detail the shape of the exposure-response function for cause-specific mortality outcomes, especially at low-levels of exposure.

Objectives: We examined the association between long-term exposure to particulate matter [(PM) with a diameter of <2.5 µm (PM), <10 µm (PM)], and nitrogen dioxide (NO) and total and cause-specific mortality, accounting for road traffic noise.