Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents
Background: Exposure to environmental noise is increasing in recent years but most of the previous literature in children has evaluated the effect of aircraft noise exposure at schools on cognition. Objective: To assess whether residential exposure to road traffic noise during pregnancy and childhoo...
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| author | Laura Pérez-Crespo Mónica López-Vicente Antònia Valentín Miguel Burgaleta Maria Foraster Henning Tiemeier Mònica Guxens |
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| description | Background: Exposure to environmental noise is increasing in recent years but most of the previous literature in children has evaluated the effect of aircraft noise exposure at schools on cognition. Objective: To assess whether residential exposure to road traffic noise during pregnancy and childhood is associated with cognitive and motor function in children and preadolescents. Methods: The study involved 619 participants from the Spanish INMA-Sabadell cohort and 7,115 from the Dutch Generation R Study. We used noise maps to estimate the average day-evening-night road traffic noise levels at each participant’s residential address during pregnancy and childhood periods. Validated tests were administered throughout childhood in both cohorts to assess non-verbal and verbal intelligence, memory, processing speed, attentional function, working memory, cognitive flexibility, risky decision-making, and fine and gross motor function. Linear models, linear mixed models, and negative binomial models were run depending on the outcome in cohort-specific analysis and combined with a random-effects meta-analysis. All models were adjusted for several socioeconomic and lifestyle variables and results corrected for multiple testing. Results: Average road traffic noise exposure levels during pregnancy and childhood were 61.3 (SD 6.0) and 61.5 (SD 5.4) dB for the INMA-Sabadell cohort and 54.6 (SD 7.9) and 53.5 (SD 6.5) dB for the Generation R Study, respectively. Road traffic noise exposure during pregnancy and childhood was not related to any of the cognitive and motor function outcomes examined in this study (e.g. −0.92 (95 % CI −2.08; 0.24) and 0.20 (95 % CI −0.96; 1.35) in overall estimates of memory and fine motor function, respectively, when road traffic noise increases by 10 dB during childhood). Conclusions: These findings suggest that child’s cognitive or motor functions are not affected by residential exposure to road traffic noise. However, more studies evaluating this association at school and home settings as well as noise events are needed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a1d4ba4d7f64a3e92f17b345f79c0762024-01-22T04:15:35ZengElsevierEnvironment International0160-41202024-01-01183108414Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescentsLaura Pérez-Crespo0Mónica López-Vicente1Antònia Valentín2Miguel Burgaleta3Maria Foraster4Henning Tiemeier5Mònica Guxens6ISGlobal, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, SpainISGlobal, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsISGlobal, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, SpainDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psicobiology, Faculty of Psychology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Neurosciences, Universitat de Barcelona, SpainISGlobal, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; PHAGEX Research Group, Blanquerna School of Health Science, Universitat Ramon Lull (URL), Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USAISGlobal, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Corresponding author at: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) – Campus Mar, Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003-Barcelona, Spain.Background: Exposure to environmental noise is increasing in recent years but most of the previous literature in children has evaluated the effect of aircraft noise exposure at schools on cognition. Objective: To assess whether residential exposure to road traffic noise during pregnancy and childhood is associated with cognitive and motor function in children and preadolescents. Methods: The study involved 619 participants from the Spanish INMA-Sabadell cohort and 7,115 from the Dutch Generation R Study. We used noise maps to estimate the average day-evening-night road traffic noise levels at each participant’s residential address during pregnancy and childhood periods. Validated tests were administered throughout childhood in both cohorts to assess non-verbal and verbal intelligence, memory, processing speed, attentional function, working memory, cognitive flexibility, risky decision-making, and fine and gross motor function. Linear models, linear mixed models, and negative binomial models were run depending on the outcome in cohort-specific analysis and combined with a random-effects meta-analysis. All models were adjusted for several socioeconomic and lifestyle variables and results corrected for multiple testing. Results: Average road traffic noise exposure levels during pregnancy and childhood were 61.3 (SD 6.0) and 61.5 (SD 5.4) dB for the INMA-Sabadell cohort and 54.6 (SD 7.9) and 53.5 (SD 6.5) dB for the Generation R Study, respectively. Road traffic noise exposure during pregnancy and childhood was not related to any of the cognitive and motor function outcomes examined in this study (e.g. −0.92 (95 % CI −2.08; 0.24) and 0.20 (95 % CI −0.96; 1.35) in overall estimates of memory and fine motor function, respectively, when road traffic noise increases by 10 dB during childhood). Conclusions: These findings suggest that child’s cognitive or motor functions are not affected by residential exposure to road traffic noise. However, more studies evaluating this association at school and home settings as well as noise events are needed.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023006876NoiseCognitionChildBirth cohortEpidemiology |
| spellingShingle | Laura Pérez-Crespo Mónica López-Vicente Antònia Valentín Miguel Burgaleta Maria Foraster Henning Tiemeier Mònica Guxens Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents Environment International Noise Cognition Child Birth cohort Epidemiology |
| title | Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| title_full | Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| title_fullStr | Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| title_short | Association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| title_sort | association between residential exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive and motor function outcomes in children and preadolescents |
| topic | Noise Cognition Child Birth cohort Epidemiology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023006876 |
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