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Frequent
travellers won’t be surprised that airports raise blood pressure.
Planes
are late, the overlays are long, security personnel are nasty, waiting lines
are long, or you run into some other problem that you can’t anticipate ahead of
time.
But,
according to a new study, published in The
Journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, it turns out that
airports can raise your blood pressure even if you don’t travel.
It’s
been established in previous studies that living around loud airports raises blood pressure.
High
blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure. It affects more than a billion adults
worldwide.
Is It Really the
Noise from Airports Raise Blood Pressure?
But
is it really the noise or something else that causes it? That was the answer a
team of Greek, Dutch, and British scientists wanted to know.
The
research team showed that people living for at least five years near a busy
airport and under a flight path have a greater risk of developing chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension,
than those who live in quieter areas.
They
approached participants who lived near Athens International Airport from 2004
till 2013 to check the hypertensive
effects of airport noise over time.
Based
on people’s addresses, they calculated the exact decibels (dB) of noise to
which they were regularly exposed.
Because
other types of noise are present during the day (like traffic, construction,
music, and so forth), they focused on night time noise specifically.
In What Way Do
Airports Raise Blood Pressure?
Researchers
found that their subjects were 2.6 times more likely to have high blood pressure with every 10 dB increase in night time airplane noise.
They
used digital recorders to determine what noises had the biggest impact on blood pressure, ranging from road traffic to a partner's snoring to an
airplane taking off or landing.
The
Decibel level, not a sound's origin, was the key factor, but airplanes had the
most significant impact, according to researchers.
Since
they also gave their subjects a questionnaire to measure the amount of
irritation they experienced because of the noise, they could also conclude that
the aircraft noise increased blood pressure even when people were not specifically annoyed by it.
This
study proves again that stress is the main cause of high blood pressure.
Loud
noise is just one of many stress factors that cause high blood pressure. And in most cases, it’s unconscious. I call this “sensory
stress”.
Other
stress factors are emotional, mental and physical stress.
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