Wellness Update: Europe: Scope - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine

Scope - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine: "In recognition of International Noise Awareness Day today, take a moment to reflect on how noise might be disrupting your daily life and, possibly, harming your health. According to a recent report by the World Health Organization's European office:
There is sufficient evidence from large-scale epidemiological studies linking the population’s exposure to environmental noise with adverse health effects. Therefore, environmental noise should be considered not only as a cause of nuisance but also a concern for public health and environmental health.
...at least one million healthy life years are lost every year from traffic-related noise in the western part of Europe.

The study breaks out the results into several specific types of noise health impacts. Every year in the EU, noise is estimated to cause:
61,000 lost years of healthy living due to noise-related heart disease
45,000 years lost due to cognitive impairment of children
903,000 years due to sleep disturbance
22,000 years due to tinnitus
587,000 years due to annoyance"