Sentences with phrase «environmental noise exposure»
Maternal factors include maternal size, weight, weight for height, nutritional state, anemia, high environmental noise exposure, cigarette smoking, substance abuse, or uterine blood flow.
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Dr. Min wanted to find out whether environmental exposure to noise, for example at work, has an impact on male infertility.
«We know noise exposure has an effect on male fertility in animals, but our study is the first to show the risk of exposure to environmental noise on male infertility in humans.»
Western Europeans suffer a heavy toll of death and disability through exposure to excessive noise, making it second only to air pollution as an environmental cause of ill health.
Long term exposure to aircraft noise, particularly during the night, is linked to an increased risk of developing high blood pressure and possibly heart flutter and stroke as well, suggests research published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Ute Kraus and colleagues of the Environmental Risks research group led by Dr. Alexandra Schneider at the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have now studied the effects of exposure to our everyday background noise.
Specific focus areas include: behavioral response studies, laboratory research on hearing and noise impacts; field research on pinniped vocal communication; noise exposure criteria and research recommendations; work with both conventional and alternative energy industries to understand and minimize environmental impacts of resource acquisition.
Free radicals are highly reactive compounds produced in response to normal metabolic functions as well as in response to air pollutants, tobacco smoke, sunlight, damaged fats, noise, chemical exposure and other environmental stressors.
There is sufficient evidence that night noise exposure causes self - reported sleep disturbance, increase in medicine use, increase in body movements and (environmental) insomnia.
And The Guardian reminded us about the interplay between health and environment with a report about new evidence in Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggesting a link between fat deposits and raised cortisol levels caused by exposure to traffic noise.