WHO warns noise pollution is a growing hazard to health in Europe

摘要: Traffic related noise accounts for over one million healthy years of life lost annually to ill health, disability, or early death in western Europe, according a new World Health Organization report. The study finds that among environmental factors contributing disease leads burden is only second magnitude from air pollution. Noise pollution causes contributes not annoyance and sleep disturbance but also heart attacks, learning disabilities, tinnitus. The report concludes there sufficient evidence large scale epidemiological studies …