Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Category	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Population	General population (children and adults, male and female)	Vocationally exposed persons; self-selected persons (who offer to participate in the study of their own accord, e.g. volunteers, recruitment via newspaper ads, etc.)
Exposure	Environmental aircraft noise, annoyance by environmental aircraft noise	Noise from industrial activities, road traffic, rail traffic, neighborhood; exclusively military aircraft noise
Endpoints	Overall project*: ● non-auditory health problems and diseases ● effects on human health (incidence/prevalence) ● mixed and non-diagnosis-specific health endpoints (e.g. health problems in general) ● stress (e.g. Lewis Child Stress Scale, stress hormone measurement)	Auditory noise effects (e.g. hearing loss, tinnitus)
	Subproject*: fatal and nonfatal cerebrovascular accident (stroke)
Study design/ publication	Cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, ecological studies	Reviews, editorials, letters to the editor

* The study is part of a large review project, evaluating effects of aircraft noise on a broad spectrum of non-auditory endpoints and diseases. The results for the endpoint “stroke“ are the subject of this article.