Recent findings have established that the risk of strokes, heart and circulatory diseases are higher in areas with a lot of aircraft noise.

CEOAFRICA news desk gathered that the research findings  established after the recent study of 3.6 million residents near Heathrow Airport has proven that the risks were 10-20% higher in areas with the highest levels of aircraft noise.

Their work suggests a higher risk for both hospital admissions and deaths from stroke, heart and circulatory disease for the 2% of the study - about 70,000 people - who lived where the aircraft noise was loudest.

Dr. Anna Hansell, expert from Imperial College London remarked that though the exact role noise plays in ill health is not well established, noise might be contributing to the rise of blood pressure or by disturbing people’s sleep.