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dc.contributor.authorMac Domhnaill, Ciarán
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Owen
dc.contributor.authorLyons, Seán
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Enda
dc.contributor.authorNolan, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-20T14:30:14Z
dc.date.available2022-09-20T14:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-08
dc.identifier.citationMac Domhnaill , C , Douglas , O , Lyons , S , Murphy , E & Nolan , A 2021 , ' Road traffic noise and cognitive function in older adults : a cross-sectional investigation of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing ' , BMC Public Health , vol. 21 , 1814 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11853-yen
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 281369655
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1f5eed18-ff35-4300-87b3-ea029bf421ee
dc.identifier.othercrossref: 10.1186/s12889-021-11853-y
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9869-7103/work/119628619
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85116794162
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26042
dc.descriptionFunding: This research is funded under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research Programme 2014–2020.en
dc.description.abstractBackground The World Health Organization published updated Environmental Noise Guidelines in 2018. Included are recommended limit values for environmental noise exposure based on systematic reviews for a range of health outcomes, including cognitive impairment. There is emerging evidence in the literature that chronic exposure to road traffic noise may affect cognitive function in older adults, but this relationship is not well established. This study spatially linked nationally representative health microdata from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing to building-level modelled noise data for two cities in the Republic of Ireland. This was used to investigate associations between exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive function in a sample of older adults, independent of a range of socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics, as well as exposure to air pollution. Methods We used the Predictor-LimA Advanced V2019.02 software package to estimate noise originating from road traffic for the cities of Dublin and Cork in Ireland according to the new common noise assessment methodology for the European Union (CNOSSOS-EU). Noise exposure values were calculated for each building and spatially linked with geo-coded TILDA microdata for 1706 individuals aged 54 and over in the two cities. Ordinary least squares linear regression models were estimated for eight standardised cognitive tests including noise exposure as an independent variable, with standard errors clustered at the household level. Models were adjusted for individual sociodemographic, behavioural and environmental characteristics. Results We find some evidence that road traffic noise exposure is negatively associated with executive function, as measured by the Animal Naming Test, among our sample of older adults. This association appears to be accounted for by exposure to air pollution when focusing on a sub-sample. We do not find evidence of an association between noise exposure and memory or processing speed. Conclusions Long term exposure to road traffic noise may be negatively associated with executive function among older adults.
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dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s). 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.en
dc.subjectRoad traffic noiseen
dc.subjectCNOSSOS-EUen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectCognitive functionen
dc.subjectOlder adultsen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectAir pollutionen
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subjectSDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communitiesen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.titleRoad traffic noise and cognitive function in older adults : a cross-sectional investigation of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Economics and Financeen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11853-y
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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