Epidemiologist Dustin Duncan, ScD, an assistant professor in the at 做厙TV Langone, says his teams latest analysis shows that the urban poor dwelling in New York Citys noisiest neighborhoodsthink all-night car horn blasts and shouting by bar revelershad healthier body weights (measured by BMI) than those who lived in quieter neighborhoods.
This link is unexplained: To be clear, were 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, Dr. Duncan tells the New York Daily News.
It may just be that New Yorks noisiest neighborhoods are also the most walkable and that its residents get more exercise that way.
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