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What are the effects of Noise pollution on human health?

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Effects of noise pollution-
(a) It produces deafness, increase in nervous tension and blood pressure.
(b) It causes headache, irritability and affects the sensory and nervous system.
(c ) It causes constriction of blood vessels, digestive spasma and dilation of the pupils of the eye.
(d) It causes damage to heart, brain, liver and results in emotional disturbances.
(e) It also results in fluctuations in arterial blood pressure, decrease of heart output, impairment of night vision and decrease in the rate of colour perception.
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