Road traffic noise and registry based use of sleep medication

• Main Authors: Jorunn Evandt (Author), Bente Oftedal (Author), Norun Hjertager Krog (Author), Svetlana Skurtveit (Author), Per Nafstad (Author), Per E. Schwarze (Author), Eva Skovlund (Author), Danny Houthuijs (Author), Gunn Marit Aasvang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Road traffic noise has been associated with adverse health effects including sleep disturbances. Use of sleep medication as an indicator of sleeping problems has rarely been explored in studies of the effects of traffic noise. Furthermore, using registry data on sleep medications...