sedentary behavior to exposure to airborne pollutants to loneliness — to determine whether they raise a person’s risk of dementia.
However, only a handful of epidemiological studies have examined the effect of community noise, which refers to the noise coming from cars, trains, planes, construction sites, and similar sources, on cognitive impairment in older adults.
This new study, which appears in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, is the first to carry out such research in the United States.This research is key, given that in 2013, more than 100 million people in the U.S.
experienced annual noise levels exceeding the limits that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommend to protect against hearing.