CREAL participates in the International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering

Yesterday CREAL researcher Maria Foraster participated at the 41st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-noise 2012, www.internoise2012.com) in New York, with an invited oral communication entitled “Transportation noise (in particular railway noise) and blood pressure in REGICOR compared to SAPALDIA”.

Her presentation focused on preliminary cross-sectional results of the effects of long-term exposure to community noise (railway and road traffic noise) on blood pressure levels in Girona town (within the Spanish REGICOR cohort), an area of research that has been little studied. Furthermore, results will be compared to the published data of the Swiss SAPALDIA cohort (Dratva et al., EHP 2011), the first study observing an impact of railway noise on blood pressure.

This work is part of the Tri-national Traffic, Air Pollution and Noise Study (TRI-TABS) and has been made in collaboration with investigators of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Intitute, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology and Universitat de Girona.

INTERNOISE-2012
The congress, entitled Quieting the World's Cities, is being held in conjunction with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Noise Control and Acoustics Division (ASME NCAD) annual meeting, is sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE), and is being organized by the United States Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA).

According to the organization, have signed up more than 1,050 articles and a total of 62 companies participating in the exhibition of products and cutting edge technology in the areas of noise and vibration.