Airport noise exposure and the postnatal growth of children

Bibliographic Data

ID8314575
AuthorsLawrence M Schell (0000-0001-6552-0398, University at Albany, State University of New York), Richard J Norelli, Richard Norelli (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Year1983
Volume61
Issue4
Pages473-482
Publication date1983-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330610410
PMID6624891
OpenAlexW2081818947
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited27

To determine whether chronic exposure to airport noise affects children, a study was conducted of the physical growth of children, aged 5–13 years, from two communities, one exposed to airport noise (n = 148) and another, not exposed (n = 102). Ten standard anthropometric measurements were made according to U.S. Health Examination Survey guidelines, and information on the social and biological characteristics of each family was collected in interviews. Hotelling's T 2 ‐tests were performed comparing the noise‐exposed and nonnoise‐exposed samples. There was no significant difference between the sample for measurements of social and biological characteristics of the families (including socioeconomic status and maternal reproductive history). Parental anthropometrics differed significantly (T 2 = 24.32, P = 0.0001) as did child anthropometrics (T 2 = 21.01, P = 0.032). For the child anthropometrics, noise‐exposed children's slightly smaller measures of body bulk, together with their larger facial breadths, contributed to the significant T 2 . When the entire sample (n = 250) was analyzed by multiple linear regression, noise exposure was a significant predictor only of male triceps and subscapular skinfolds. For these two variables, and most other anthropometrics, however, the beta coefficients were negative for both sexes. In order to include information on covariance structure among all variables, a canonical correlation analysis was performed. Noise exposure loaded negatively on the third canonical variate and was paired with positively loaded measures of body bulk. Taken together, the three analyses suggest that while there is some evidence for a slight effect of airport noise on measures of body bulk for males in this sample, most measures of postnatal growth for both males and females were unaffected by the noise levels experienced

Anthropometry · Environmental health · Environmental Noise · Linear regression · Noise (video) · Population · Regression analysis · Socioeconomic status · Statistics · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Demography · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine · Noise Effects and Management · Psychology

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