[Short-term cardiovascular responses to repeated exposure to intermittent noise. Interindividual differences].

Human subjects were exposed for two (or three) sessions to the same runs of 103 dB (A) pink noise-steps alternating with 40 dB (A) low level pink noise. From one session to the following their cardiovascular responses seem to achieve an adjustment. Differences between them depend on two features: (1) some of them achieve a negative feedback reaction from the second exposure, when in others such a reaction is delayed until the third exposure; (2) parallelism or opposition between evolutions of heart rate and arterial blood pressure respectively.