Airplane Noise Linked To High Blood Pressure

Why do those people with hypertension choose to live under the
flight-path of neighborhood airports? Is it because that is the only
location their financial means affords them?

(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196600)
Airplane Noise Linked To High Blood Pressure

It may be music to the ears of some, but airplane noise may be
hard on the heart. A Swedish study suggests that men who live near
airports have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure
than those who live in quieter neighborhoods. "It is thought that
aircraft noise causes stress problems when it interferes with
people's ability to think, relax or sleep, for example," study
organizer Dr. Mats Rosenlund of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm told Reuters Health. The study followed 2,000 men, who
didn’t have high blood pressure, for 10 years and found that the
20 percent of study subjects who lived in the noisiest area were
19 percent more likely to develop it. The study took into account
lifestyle factors like obesity, exercise and eating habits.
Rosenlund cautioned that the study does not prove that airplane
noise causes high blood pressure but he did say it was consistent
with other studies that draw a link between blood pressure and
noise.

Is it time for real estate sellers of properties impacted by airport
noise to require buyers to attest to their knowledge and assent to
noise?

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Larry Dighera wrote:

Why do those people with hypertension choose to live under the
flight-path of neighborhood airports? Is it because that is the only
location their financial means affords them?

(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196600)
Airplane Noise Linked To High Blood Pressure

It may be music to the ears of some, but airplane noise may be
hard on the heart. A Swedish study suggests that men who live near
airports have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure
than those who live in quieter neighborhoods. "It is thought that
aircraft noise causes stress problems when it interferes with
people's ability to think, relax or sleep, for example," study
organizer Dr. Mats Rosenlund of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm told Reuters Health. The study followed 2,000 men, who
didn’t have high blood pressure, for 10 years and found that the
20 percent of study subjects who lived in the noisiest area were
19 percent more likely to develop it. The study took into account
lifestyle factors like obesity, exercise and eating habits.
Rosenlund cautioned that the study does not prove that airplane
noise causes high blood pressure but he did say it was consistent
with other studies that draw a link between blood pressure and
noise.

Is it time for real estate sellers of properties impacted by airport
noise to require buyers to attest to their knowledge and assent to
noise?

Look at the fine print! Those studies are relevant only to airports
serving large numbers of transport-class jets! THe noise Nazis like to
quote such studies and blanket them to all airports -- clearly a misuse
of the findings.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:25:07 -0500, Orval Fairbairn
wrote in
:

Look at the fine print! Those studies are relevant only to airports
serving large numbers of transport-class jets!

While I am sure that noise can negatively impact human health, and
that airport environments can be noisy, I don't see how this study
bolsters neighborhood noise protesters' cause. After all, they made a
conscious decision to reside there, and they benefit from the reduced
cost of property impacted by noise.

THe noise Nazis like to quote such studies and blanket them to all
airports -- clearly a misuse of the findings.

Perhaps. I haven't seen any evidence of that practice, but I haven't
been looking. But I must say, that the piston GA aircraft are noisier
than the airliners today. But in the evening, when there are
airliners strung out as far a Kansas all destined to arrive on the
four runways at KLAX every few minutes, the airline traffic becomes
considerably more of an issue than the occasional GA piston
arrival/departure.

Regardless, the true solution for this issue, and the NAS airline
congestion issue is to construct airline hub airports in sparsely
populated, outlaying locations, and shuttle passengers to and from
local municipal airports al la SATS. Any residential housing that is
permitted within the vicinity of such outlaying airports should
require buyers to acknowledge the noise impact, and waive their right
to litigate that issue.

That would create more air traffic as a result of shuttling, but it
will be dispersed over a larger set of airports than today. But it
could make jumbos more attractive to the airlines, and if that were to
happen, it could reduce the number of flights to some extent.

The real issue with airline congestion, like automobile congestion, is
the exponentially expanding population. As nuclear proliferation
continues, the Russians persist in arming US enemies, and desperate
political factions become more fanatical, the solution looms ever
larger: Nuclear Sterilization. :-(

Larry Dighera wrote:
Why do those people with hypertension choose to live under the
flight-path of neighborhood airports? Is it because that is the only
location their financial means affords them?

(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196600)
Airplane Noise Linked To High Blood Pressure

It may be music to the ears of some, but airplane noise may be
hard on the heart. A Swedish study suggests that men who live near
airports have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure
than those who live in quieter neighborhoods. "It is thought that
aircraft noise causes stress problems when it interferes with
people's ability to think, relax or sleep, for example," study
organizer Dr. Mats Rosenlund of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm told Reuters Health. The study followed 2,000 men, who
didn’t have high blood pressure, for 10 years and found that the
20 percent of study subjects who lived in the noisiest area were
19 percent more likely to develop it. The study took into account
lifestyle factors like obesity, exercise and eating habits.
Rosenlund cautioned that the study does not prove that airplane
noise causes high blood pressure but he did say it was consistent
with other studies that draw a link between blood pressure and
noise.

Is it time for real estate sellers of properties impacted by airport
noise to require buyers to attest to their knowledge and assent to
noise?

I'll be sure to post this over at the
rifle range that's about 1000' from the
end of three-four at my home field.

Wouldn't want all those shooters to have
a heart attack.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:35:34 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

It is thought that
aircraft noise causes stress problems when it interferes with
people's ability to think, relax or sleep, for example,

My kids get excited and distracted when they spot airplanes overhead
too. Come to think of it: so do I.

- Andrew

On 2007-11-20 09:35:34 -0800, Larry Dighera said:


Why do those people with hypertension choose to live under the
flight-path of neighborhood airports? Is it because that is the only
location their financial means affords them?

I suspect that is a bit of what actually happens. A lot of upscale
over-achievers move next to airports because the land is cheap, often
scenic, and you can afford more house. They also tend to be the sort of
people who don't think things all the way through before committing
themselves, so they are constantly suffering from self-induced stress
for which they blame others. Show me a litigious S of a B living near
an airport and I will show you that he would be a litigious S of a B
with high blood pressure just about anywhere else.



--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Larry Dighera writes:

Is it time for real estate sellers of properties impacted by airport
noise to require buyers to attest to their knowledge and assent to
noise?

Noise in general raises blood pressure; there's nothing specific about
aircraft noise that causes it to do this more than other types of noise.

Larry Dighera writes:

That would create more air traffic as a result of shuttling, but it
will be dispersed over a larger set of airports than today. But it
could make jumbos more attractive to the airlines, and if that were to
happen, it could reduce the number of flights to some extent.

It would waste a tremendous amount of fuel.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Larry Dighera writes:

Is it time for real estate sellers of properties impacted by airport
noise to require buyers to attest to their knowledge and assent to
noise?

Noise in general raises blood pressure; there's nothing specific about
aircraft noise that causes it to do this more than other types of noise.


Pretty much why nobody likes you, in fact.


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Larry Dighera writes:

That would create more air traffic as a result of shuttling, but it
will be dispersed over a larger set of airports than today. But it
could make jumbos more attractive to the airlines, and if that were to
happen, it could reduce the number of flights to some extent.

It would waste a tremendous amount of fuel.


You have no idea what you;re talking about,.

Bertie