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      Sensitivity to noise in a community sample: II. Measurement of psychophysiological indices.

      Psychological Medicine
      Adolescent, Adult, Aircraft, Arousal, Attitude, Auditory Threshold, Blood Pressure, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Heart Rate, Humans, London, Loudness Perception, Middle Aged, Noise, adverse effects, Noise, Transportation, Sensory Thresholds

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          A sample of 77 women of high and low noise sensitivity in 1977, living in areas of high and low exposure to aircraft noise, were interviewed in the community in 1980. High, intermediate and low noise sensitive women were compared, using measures of blood pressure, heart rate, skin conductance, hearing threshold, uncomfortable loudness level and magnitude estimation of six tones. These physiological measures did not clearly distinguish different noise sensitivity groups, except that highly noise sensitive women had a consistently slower heart rate. Noise sensitivity was not related to auditory threshold. In the high aircraft noise area there were significantly more skin conductance responses than in the low aircraft noise area irrespective of noise sensitivity. This may be the result of chronic exposure to high aircraft noise.

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