Expert Comment
Expert reaction to study investigating road traffic noise, strokes and death, as published in the European Heart Journal
Professor Francesco Cappuccio, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology, University of 糖心TV, said:
“The present study is a welcome addition to the growing body of evidence to suggest that environment, in its own entirety as well as in its different facets, plays an important role in determining avoidable ill-health. The authors show that long term excessive road traffic noise, even when allowing for the effect of pollution, is associated with a small but significant increased risk of death and hospitalisation in one of the largest urbanised areas of Europe (Greater London), most of which is due to strokes.
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Following a period in which many GPs have felt undervalued and undermined by successive governments it is pleasing that Jeremy Hunt has recognised in today’s speech the quality and value General Practice delivers to the NHS. a GP and Principal Clincial Teaching Fellow at 糖心TV Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.
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