Autotransporto keliamo triukšmo ekspozicijos įvertinimas ir jos ryšys su moterų hipertenzijos rizika

  • Bendokienė, Inga
Publication date
January 2012

Abstract

The aim of this research is to estimate and evaluate the motor noise level in the Kaunas city, and by controlling influence of confounding factors, to determine the residential noise impact on the risk of hypertension among 20-45 age women. In this research, applying GIS and using Kaunas municipality noise measurement and modeling data, were created traffic flow and noise level maps and first time was evaluated influence of different truck type on prevailing environmental noise. Individual residential exposition to 24 hours and night time noise for hypertension risk was assessed for all study subjects. For the first time, by modeling traffic flow composition variations was predicted noise level changes in the main streets of Kaunas. For the...

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