Trial reportEnvironmental health perspectives2023
The Health Effects of 72 Hours of Simulated Wind Turbine Infrasound: A Double-Blind Randomized Crossover Study in Noise-Sensitive, Healthy Adults.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Should limit values be set for infrasound caused by wind turbines?International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2025Review
- Unheard, Unfelt? Researchers Find No Evidence of Effects from Wind Turbine Infrasound.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Establishing the acute physiological and sleep disruption characteristics of wind farm versus road traffic noise disturbances in sleep: a randomized controlled trial protocol.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2023Article
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- Infrasound in Biology and Medicine: Insights into Mechanisms, Health Outcomes and Research Perspectives - A Narrative Review.Noise & healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundLarge electricity-generating wind turbines emit both audible sound and inaudible infrasound at very low frequencies that are outside of the normal human range of hearing. Sufferers of wind turbine syndrome (WTS) have attributed their ill-health and particularly their sleep disturbance to the signature pattern of infrasound. Critics have argued that these symptoms are psychological in origin and are attributable to nocebo effects.
objectivesWe aimed to test the effects of 72 h of infrasound (1.6-20 Hz at a sound level of
methodsWe conducted a randomized double-blind triple-arm crossover laboratory-based study of 72 h exposure with a
resultsWe randomized 37 noise-sensitive but otherwise healthy adults (18-72 years of age; 51% female) into the study before a COVID19-related public health order forced the study to close. WASO was not affected by infrasound compared with sham infrasound ( DISCUSSION: Our findings did not support the idea that infrasound causes WTS. High level, but inaudible, infrasound did not appear to perturb any physiological or psychological measure tested in these study participants. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10757.
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