Table 3.
Reviews included with their relative score.
| First Author | Included Articles | Principal Results | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guski | 62 | The evidence of exposure–response relations between noise levels and % HA is moderate (aircraft, railway) or low (road traffic, wind turbines). The evidence of correlations between noise levels and annoyance raw scores is high (aircraft, railway) or moderate (road traffic, wind turbines) | A.8 |
| Hays | narrative | oil and gas activities produce noise at levels that may increase the risk of adverse health outcomes, including annoyance, sleep disturbance, and cardiovascular diseases | I.5 |
| Hume | narrative | annoyance is the mediating factor between noise exposure and cardiovascular diseases with annoyance has associations with a number of cofactors such as noise sensitivity, negative affectivity and mental health | I.6 |
| Lercher | narrative | important modifiers may partly be responsible for the large variations found in the noise health effects (socio-demographic factors, length of exposure, bedroom.) | I.6 |
| Schmidt | 36 | a dose–response relationship between wind turbine noise linked to noise annoyance, sleep disturbance and possibly even psychological distress is present in the literature | A.6 |