If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it's usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance
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14.9dB is a BIG increase.
Yes and no. A 14.9db increase of 85db background noise is big, while a 14.9db increase of 40db background noise certainly is not.
Decibels is logarithmic and there is little information in this study about environmental ambiance.
One graph starts at 40db, which indicates data was collected at roughly the noise level of a refrigerator. A casual conversation would roughly qualify as "noise."
Yeah I was going to put the background reference in but the study didn’t have it. I feel that’s important.
I fucking hate it.
Sorry to be that guy but...
Danish study warns traffic noise ~~is killing people~~ correlates with increased mortality
It's worth emphasizing that people are probably not being killed directly by noise. People who live near car noise probably live near cars. I imagine these cars are killing people more by violence, pollution/particulate, etc. than by noise alone.