{"id":2391,"date":"2014-12-27T23:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T23:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2014-12-27T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T23:54:59","slug":"european-environment-agency-estimates-10000-deaths-per-year-from-road-traffic-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"European Environment Agency estimates 10,000 deaths per year from road traffic noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise.jpg\" alt=\"road_traffic_noise\" width=\"828\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/road_traffic_noise-500x336.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Environment Agency (EEA) estimates that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more than 125 million Europeans are exposed to road traffic noise levels above legal guidelines (55dB L_den),<\/li>\n<li>road traffic noise causes at least 10,000 premature deaths each year,<\/li>\n<li>almost 20 million adults are annoyed and a further 8 million suffer sleep disturbance due to environmental noise,<\/li>\n<li>over 900 000 cases of hypertension are caused by environmental noise each year,<\/li>\n<li>noise pollution causes 43 000 hospital admissions in Europe per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/publications\/noise-in-europe-2014\/at_download\/file\">Noise in Europe 2014<\/a>\u00a0 can be downloaded from the EEA web site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Environment Agency (EEA) estimates that more than 125 million Europeans are exposed to road traffic noise levels above legal guidelines (55dB L_den), road <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"entry-more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2391\" class=\"entry-more-link entry-more-link-excerpt btn btn-primary\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}