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"The combined toll of occupational, recreational and environmental noise exposure poses a serious public health threat going far beyond hearing damage, according to an international team of researchers writing today in The Lancet. The review team, including a Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania expert, examined the latest research on noise's impact on an array of health indicators\u2014hearing loss, cardiovascular disease, cognitive performance and mental health, and sleep disturbance\u2014in order to inform the medical community and lay public about the burden of both auditory and non-auditory effects of noise."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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