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. 2021 Mar 5;28(16):19629–19642. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-13211-2

Table 2.

Equivalent internal and external noise levels from studies

Author Indoor noise dB (A) Leq Outdoor noise dB (A) Leq
Daytime Nighttime Daytime Nighttime
Carvalhais et al. 2015 48.7–71.7 (24 h)
Chen 2015 51–73
Fiedler and Zannin 2015 > 65
Filus et al. 2015 56.6–64.7 59.0–68.8
Lahav 2015 58.7–60.0
Monazzam et al. 2015 59.9–70.1
Oliveira et al. 2015 54.8–65.2 43.4–54.9
Garrido Galindo et al. 2016 58.9–65.7 57.0–64.2
Luetz et al. 2016 50.9–56.2 (24 h)
Pirsaheb et al. 2016 52.0–88.6
Shield et al. 2016 50.0–60.6 41.4–52.9
Shoemark et al. 2016 55–65 (24 h)
de Araújo Vieira et al. 2016 58.2–65.6
Ai et al. 2017 62.6–67.7
Disher et al. 2017 43–70 (24 h)
D’Souza et al. 2017 59.4–62.1
Galindo et al. 2017 59.5–65.3 (24 h)
Santos et al. 2017 46.6–71.7 (24 h)
Bevan et al. 2018 38.7–62.0
Predrag et al. 2018 64.6–69.9 58.3–65.4
Bliefnick et al. 2019 52–61 (24 h)
Cho et al. 2019 37–67
Loupa et al. 2019 57–76
Montes-González et al. 2019 55.7–60.2 51.4–55.5
Terzi et al. 2019 61–71 (24 h)
Tezel et al. 2019 62.7–84.7 (24 h)
Wu et al. 2019 57.3–63.8
Yildirim and Mayda 2019 48.5–70.8
Zijlstra et al. 2019 39.7–54.6 (24 h)
Astin et al. 2020 49.2–51.6
García-Rivero et al. 2020 83.3–88.6
Hasegawa and Ryherd 2020 51.8–59.8 (24 h)
Tang et al. 2020 45–70.5