Infrasound and Low-Frequency Noise: Medical Considerations
Mariana Alves-Pereira, Bruce Rapley, Huub Bakker, Rachel Summer
Presentation, Paris, November 16, 2018
- Historical Background
- Agents of Disease (noise is inanimate mechanical forces, airborne pressure waves)
- Epidemiological Issues (ILFN is a physical agent of disease. Wind turbines are not agents of disease. The agent of disease is not the WT, but what it emanates.)
- Biological Tissues (viscoelastic, tensegrity architecture)
- Tensegrity Structures (‘noise’, or airborne pressure waves, impact viscoelastic tissues as ‘inanimate mechanical forces’)
- Epidemiological Issues
- Biological Response
- Animal Studies
- The Respiratory System
- Boiler Plant Workers
- Clinical States of Vibroacoustic Disease for Occupational Exposures
- Alveolar Wall Thickening
- Mitochondria (enlarged)
- Cardiovascular System (thickening of blood vessel walls and pericardium)
- Teratogenesis