Noise: The not-so-silent killer?
How sounds could be damaging your health
How sounds could be damaging your health. Long-term exposure to the noises of everyday city life has been linked to higher levels of stress, diabetes and heart disease. On this episode, presenter Jonny Dymond speaks to the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 health and science correspondent James Gallagher about life in two of the world鈥檚 loudest cities 鈥� Barcelona in Spain and Dhaka in Bangladesh. And James puts his own body to the test, to find out how it responds to the most annoying sounds.
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