Epidemiologist Dustin Duncan, ScD, an assistant professor in the at 嘿嘿视频, says his team鈥檚 latest analysis shows that the urban poor dwelling in New York City鈥檚 noisiest neighborhoods鈥攖hink all-night car horn blasts and shouting by bar revelers鈥攈ad healthier body weights (measured by BMI) than those who lived in quieter neighborhoods.
This link is unexplained: 鈥淭o be clear, we鈥檙e not saying that neighborhood noise causes better health, and a lot of further research is needed to explain the relationship we found between this kind of disturbance and health,鈥 Dr. Duncan tells the New York Daily News.
鈥淚t may just be that New York鈥檚 noisiest neighborhoods are also the most walkable and that its residents get more exercise that way.鈥
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