About the Authors

Mette Sørensen

mettes@cancer.dk

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Zorana J. Andersen

Affiliations Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rikke B. Nordsborg

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Steen S. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Kenneth G. Lillelund

Affiliation Rambøll Danmark A/S, Aarhus, Denmark

Rob Beelen

Affiliation Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Erik B. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Contributed equally to this work with: Kim Overvad, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kim Overvad, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

KL from Rambøll A/S was responsible for road traffic noise assesment. Rambøll A/S is a consultant Agency that has specialised in e.g. acoustic measurements and modelling. KL and Rambøll was selected in a ‘call for tenders’ where 4 different companies were asked to participate. KL and Rambøll has delivered all data material to the author group. Therefore, including KL from Rambøll in this paper this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS ORN. Analyzed the data: MS ZJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS ZJA RBN SSJ KGL EBS AT KO ORN. Wrote the paper: MS. Critically revised the manuscript: ZJA RBN SSJ KGL RB EBS AT KO ORN.