Commuters often exposed to damaging noise levels

By Shereen Lehman, Reuters; December 11, 2017

(Reuters Health) – Loud noise exceeding levels that can damage hearing is regularly encountered by commuters using buses, subways and even biking, a Canadian study suggests.

“The effects of noise on our hearing health and overall health has been garnering a lot of recent attention and our team recently commented that commuting in the city, in general, seems to be quite noisy, so we decided to take our noise dosimeters on common commuting routes to see exactly how loud things got,” senior study author Dr. Vincent Lin told Reuters Health by email.

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