Epidemiologist Dustin Duncan, ScD, an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone, says his team’s latest analysis shows that the urban poor dwelling in New York City’s noisiest neighborhoods—think all-night car horn blasts and shouting by bar revelers—had healthier body weights (measured by BMI) than those who lived in quieter neighborhoods.

This link is unexplained: “To be clear, we’re 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 York’s noisiest neighborhoods are also the most walkable and that its residents get more exercise that way.”

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