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Noise could take years off your life. Here’s how

New York Times
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On a spring afternoon in Bankers Hill, San Diego, the soundscape is serene: sea breeze rustles through the trees and neighbours chat pleasantly across driveways.

Except for about every three minutes, when a jet blazes overhead with an ear-piercing roar.

A growing body of research shows that this kind of chronic noise — which rattles the neighbourhood over 280 times a day, more than 105,000 times each year — is not just annoying. It is a largely unrecognised health threat

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