| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["health"],"appCategory":"health","appTitle":"How does the airport noise affect the health & psychological well being of children?","appBody":"<p>Noise causes stress and is harmful to humans.</p>\n<p>The children exposed to airport noise generally experiences modest but significant increases in blood pressure and significant increases in stress hormones (epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol) and also that results in a significant decline in their quality of life.</p>\n<p>Although the increases in blood pressure are modest in the children living under the flight path, they may predict a greater likelihood of having higher blood pressure throughout adulthood. The elevated blood pressure in childhood predicts higher blood pressure later in life.</p>\n<p>Boosts in stress hormones also are of concern because they indicate that noise induces physiological stress. These hormones are linked to adult illnesses, some of which are life-threatening, including high blood pressure, elevated lipids and cholesterol, heart disease and a reduction in the body's supply of disease-fighting immune cells.</p>\n<p>Further, children living near an international airport tend to be poor listeners and do not read as well as matched children in quiet schools. Therefore chronic noise affects reading, learning and mental health significantly.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"p3fldn2zf","appParentAuthor":"littymumma","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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