[Does aircraft noise affect health?].

A field study of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, has verified that aircraft noise effects severe annoyance and inconvenience of airport area residents. This causes irritation, which manifests itself in numerous negative intentions, attitudes and opinions, in actions and meaures and even in psychosomatic disorders. Moreover noise exerts influence on vegetative reactions of persons performing different activities, mostly if they have to concentrate on a task.