Thousands of people in Britain and around the world are dying prematurely from heart disease triggered by long-term exposure to excessive noise, according to research by the World Health Organisation. Coronary heart disease caused 101,000 deaths in the UK in 2006, and the study suggests that 3,030 of these are caused by chronic noise exposure, including to daytime traffic.
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Antisocial noise at record level as neighbours count cost to health - The Times 23rd August 2007
Noise of modern life blamed for thousands of heart deaths - The Guardian 23rd August 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
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