Supplementary table 2.

Characteristics of included and excluded participants from the analysis (N = 4,814)

All	Excluded		Included
	N	(%)	N	(%)
	1789	37.2	3025	62.8
Gender (missing = 0)
Male	904	50.8	1484	49.1
Years of formal education (missing = 16)
<10	293	16.6	254	8.4
11–13	1010	57.1	1666	55.0
14–17	349	19.7	719	23.8
>=18	118	6.7	389	12.9
Employment status (missing = 15)
Employed	498	28.2	1430	47.2
Inactive or housewife	225	12.7	438	14.5
Retired	993	52.7	970	32.0
Unemployed	113	6.4	192	6.3
Comorbidities (missing = 0)
0	606	34.0	1329	43.8
1	585	32.8	1034	34.1
> = 2	591	33.2	669	22.1
Sports (missing = 1)
Yes	780	43.8	1807	59.6
Smoking (missing = 10)
Never smoker	698	39.4	1316	43.4
Former smoker	552	31.2	1110	36.6
Current smoker	552	29.5	606	20.0
City of residence (missing = 1)
Mülheim	620	34.8	1137	37.5
Bochum	540	30.3	860	28.4
Essen	621	34.9	1035	34.1
Moved during study period (missing = 0)
Yes	305	17.2	478	15.8
Noise-annoyance day (missing = 778)
Not at all	639	48.5	1483	54.5
Somewhat annoyed	405	30.8	786	28.9
Moderately annoyed	172	13.1	331	12.2
Strongly annoyed	83	6.3	101	3.7
Extremely annoyed	16	1.2	20	0.7
Noise-annoyance night (missing = 780)
Not at all	930	70.9	2021	74.2
Somewhat	annoyed	249	19.0	298	18.3
Moderately annoyed	94	7.2	142	5.2
Strongly annoyed	28	2.1	53	2.0
Extremely annoyed	10	0.8	9	0.3
Insomnia (missing = 42)
Yes	251	14.3	324	10.7
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Body mass index (kg/m2) (missing = 29)	28.61	5.00	27.52	4.34
Age (years) (missing = 0)	61.90	8.10	58.31	7.34
Lden (dB)a (missing = 41)	54.86	9.54	53.66	9.25
Lnight (dB)b (missing = 41)	45.91	9.27	44.79	9.00
Lden,indoor (dB)b (missing = 980)	38.32	15.81	34.26	15.03
Lnight,indoor (dB)d (missing = 931)	28.63	15.82	26.9	15.60

^a24-hour mean road traffic noise at the most exposed facade. ^bNight-time mean traffic road noise at the most exposed façade. ^c24-hour mean road traffic noise in living room. ^dNight mean road traffic noise in bedroom.