Watan-For decades, numerous studies have been conducted on the general health effects of continuous airplane noise.
Recently, British doctors analyzed heart images using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and found that the left ventricle of people living near airports is, on average, seven percent heavier than that of others.
This means that the risk of developing serious cardiovascular problems, such as arrhythmia, heart attacks, or strokes, is 32 percent higher in these individuals compared to others, according to a statement from the doctors overseeing the study from University College London, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), as cited by the German newspaper Die Welt. In essence, the heart becomes stiffer, less capable of stretching, and its ability to pump blood decreases.
Christian Tüpersino, one of the doctors supervising the study, confirmed that “other factors resulting from stress responses to airplane noise include sleep disturbances, inflammation, and atherosclerosis.”
A Risk That Cannot Be Ignored!
The doctors based their study on the evaluation of heart records from 3,635 people living near one of four major English airports: London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, and Birmingham.
The researchers assessed the long-term risks resulting from changes in the left ventricle of the heart using heart images and other data from 21,360 patients, considering various factors that could affect heart health, including gender, age, income, smoking, alcohol consumption, air quality, and other sources of noise.
Although the exact extent of airplane noise’s impact on the cardiovascular system is not yet definitively established, there is evidence linking this noise to obesity and high blood pressure, which the body may respond to by thickening the heart muscle.
Doctors and researchers emphasize the urgent need to better protect these populations from the harmful health effects of airplane noise.
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