Meta-Analysis of Traffic Noise Exposure and Hypertension Risk Across 11 Cohort Studies

A systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes results from 11 prospective cohort studies involving 1,353,481 participants to evaluate the link between long-term traffic noise exposure and hypertension risk. The research, authored by Yumo Xia and published on figshare, pools data from PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science to calculate hazard ratios. The document was last updated on May 28, 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess the causal association between long-term traffic noise and hypertension based on pooled cohort data.
• Validate environmental noise as an independent risk factor for hypertension, separate from air pollution.
• Inform public health policy on noise assessment and mitigation strategies based on meta-analysis results.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on 11 cohort studies with a total of 1,353,481 participants.
• Study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, and results show statistical significance (HR=1.07, 95% CI: 1.01–1.13).
• Subgroup analyses examined specific noise sources (e.g., night noise, aircraft noise) and follow-up times.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 20.4 KB DOCX document containing the review's text and results, not the underlying raw cohort data.
• Column-level documentation for any potential supplementary data is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the text.
• Row count for any tabular data within the document is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Yumo Xia via figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of literature from PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 06:23:22; freshness should be verified.