Living near an airport ‘can cause high blood pressure’ - The Times 31st October 2007

Living near a noisy airport increases the risk of high blood pressure, according to research. The findings suggest that constant exposure to high levels of noise may be damaging to health. A team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied 2,700 men living near Stockholm Arlanda airport between 1992 and 2004. The team reports in the journal Epidemiology that the men exposed to an average daily noise level of more than 50 decibels were 19 per cent more likely to have high blood pressure.

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