The Association between Noise, Cortisol and Heart Rate in a Small-Scale Gold Mining Community-A Pilot Study.

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Published in Int J Environ Res Public Health on August 21, 2015

Authors

Allyson Green1, Andrew D Jones2, Kan Sun3, Richard L Neitzel4,5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. aggreen@umich.edu.
2: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. jonesand@umich.edu.
3: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. kansun@umich.edu.
4: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. rneitzel@umich.edu.
5: Risk Science Center, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. rneitzel@umich.edu.

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