Re: Aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London: small area study
Neither study of aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease mentions one important confounding factor.
If you live under a flight path, you are not only exposed to high levels of aircraft noise, you are also exposed to a fine mist of huge quantities of burnt aviation fuel, which is effectively paraffin/kerosene. Fumes from kerosene cooking stoves in the developing world are know to be associated with disease. Could high levels of aircraft noise simply be a marker for high levels of inhaled kerosene exhaust fumes?
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Re: Aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London: small area study
Neither study of aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease mentions one important confounding factor.
If you live under a flight path, you are not only exposed to high levels of aircraft noise, you are also exposed to a fine mist of huge quantities of burnt aviation fuel, which is effectively paraffin/kerosene. Fumes from kerosene cooking stoves in the developing world are know to be associated with disease. Could high levels of aircraft noise simply be a marker for high levels of inhaled kerosene exhaust fumes?
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