title: Residential and GPS-Defined Activity Space Neighborhood Noise Complaints, Body Mass Index and Blood Pressure Among Low-Income Housing Residents in New York City.
abstract: Little is known about how neighborhood noise influences cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among low-income populations. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between neighborhood noise complaints and body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) among low-income housing residents in New York City (NYC), including the use of global positioning system (GPS) data. Data came from the NYC Low-Income Housing, Neighborhoods and Health Study in 2014, including objectively measured BMI and BP data (N = 102, Black = 69%), and 1 week of GPS data. Noise reports from "NYC 311" were used to create a noise complaints density (unit: 1000 reports/km2) around participants' home and GPS-defined activity space neighborhoods. In fully-adjusted models, we examined associations of noise complaints density with BMI (kg/m2), and systolic and diastolic BP (mmHg), controlling for individual- and neighborhood-level socio-demographics. We found inverse relationships between home noise density and BMI (B = -2.7 [kg/m2], p = 0.009), and systolic BP (B = -5.3 mmHg, p = 0.008) in the fully-adjusted models, and diastolic BP (B = -3.9 mmHg, p = 0.013) in age-adjusted models. Using GPS-defined activity space neighborhoods, we observed inverse associations between noise density and systolic BP (B = -10.3 mmHg, p = 0.019) in fully-adjusted models and diastolic BP (B = -7.5 mmHg, p = 0.016) in age-adjusted model, but not with BMI. The inverse associations between neighborhood noise and CVD risk factors were unexpected. Further investigation is needed to determine if these results are affected by unobserved confounding (e.g., variations in walkability). Examining how noise could be related to CVD risk could inform effective neighborhood intervention programs for CVD risk reduction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA. Kosuke.Tamura@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Kosuke
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-2856
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.|Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Elbel
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France.|Inserm, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Basile
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chaix
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Seann D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Regan
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Yazan A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Al-Ajlouni
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Athens
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France.|Inserm, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meline
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Dustin T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Duncan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D009622:Noise; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D062486:Public Health Surveillance; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Geographic information systems; Global positioning systems; Health disparities; Low-income housing residents; Neighborhood noise exposure