Residential Road Traffic Noise and High Depressive Symptoms After Five Years of Follow-up: Results from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study
Environmental Health Perspectives, 124(5):578-585, 2016
By: Environmental Health Perspectives
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp.1409400
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This article makes the connection between residential road traffic noise, stress and annoyance, and depressive symptoms. It finds that people with low socioeconomic status and insomnia are particularly sensitive to noise effects and points towards the inequitable distribution of noise pollution.