Literaturstudie 'Laerm als Risikofaktor des akuten Myokardinfarkts'

The extraaural non-specific effects of noise are today an interesting and important aspect of the work of much researchers in social medicine and environmental health. The role of noise in the etiology and pathogenesis of arterial hypertension, ischaemic heart desease, heart attack, myocardial dystrophia and of the metabolic disorders was investigated and concretized. It was the objective of the present investigation to search the specialized literature of the Eastern European countries, above all the Russian literature, on the subject of 'Noise as a factor risk for the origin of cardiovascular disease'. The results show in summary that chronic noise pollution is an important determinant for the risk of hypertension. The positive findings concerning the connections between noise and cardiovascular disease demand a further investigation in consideration of all co-factors and causes of disease (family predisposition to high blood pressure, food and life habits, age, sex and so on). The results indicate that people who are subject to greater noise exposure experience a greater risk of illness them people with lower noise exposure. The role of noise as stress-factor and its injurious health effects are recognized. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8908(99-117) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekUmweltbundesamt, Berlin (Germany); Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman