@article {Christensen:2016:0736-2935:7559,
title = "Pregnancy and childhood exposure to residential traffic noise and overweight at 7 years of age",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2016",
volume = "253",
number = "1",
publication date ="2016-08-21T00:00:00",
pages = "7559-7569",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2016/00000253/00000001/art00082",
author = "Christensen, Jeppe and S\orensen, Thorkild Ia",
abstract = "Background: Exposure to road traffic noise has been associated with adiposity and diabetes in adults. Children may be particularly susceptible to noise.Objectives: To examine the association between traffic noise exposure during pregnancy and early childhood and adiposity in children.Methods:
We identified 40,974 singletons from the Danish National Birth Cohort with parentally given questionnaire information on weight and height at 7-years of age. Road and railway traffic noise were modelled at all historical addresses for two exposure periods (pregnancy and childhood). Adiposity
was assessed using BMI z-scores and a dichotomous measure of childhood overweight based on age and sex specific cut-offs. Associations were analyzed using linear regression for BMI z-scores and logistic regression for risk of childhood overweight, adjusting for socioeconomic position, maternal
age, parity and degree of urbanization.Results: We found both pregnancy and childhood exposure to be associated with a borderline statistically significant higher risk for childhood overweight (odds ratio =1.05, 95% confidence interval: 0.99-1.12 for childhood exposure). There was no associations
between traffic noise and BMI z-scores. We found no associations between railway noise and adiposity.Conclusions: We found suggestions of a positive association between road traffic noise and risk of overweight in 7-years old children.",
}