[Epidemiologic study Salus domestica: evaluation of health damage in a sample of XXXX living near the Malpensa 2000 airport].

@entity1 @entity566 @entity1245 @entity148 @entity4456 @entity74 @entity392 @entity393
The opening of the new Malpensa 2000 Airport worried @entity1 living in the neighbouring towns about possible effects of acoustic and air pollution on health status. For this reason, Varese Health Unit set up a study involving housewives and General Practitioners. This study has been carried out in 3 Areas: A Area, bordering the airport, B Area, at intermediate distance, and C Area, at long distance. On the whole, 932 housewives (18 to 64 years old) and 92 General Practitioners, were involved. The questionnaire, distributed to housewives between @entity4456 st and November 30th 2000, was filled out in the doctor's surgery who furthermore added clinical data. Chi-square statistics were calculated to test the association between living area and personal data, behavioural and environmental characteristics, and @entity74 . To describe possible interrelationships between living Area and the answers supplied by housewives and General Practitioners the multiple correspondence multivariate analysis technique was applied. The housewives living next to the airport (A area) frequently report insomnia, nocturnal waking, @entity148 and @entity393 . The multivariate analysis has shown a relationship between recently increasing noise noted by the housewives, and the area where they live, as well as a noticeable coherence between the answers given by the housewives and those given by the General Practitioners, who reported higher frequencies of cephalgy, @entity566 , @entity148 , medical consultation, @entity1245 's and sleeping @entity74 in A Area compared to C Area. The airport's presence seems to be associated with the onset of @entity392 in neighbouring population. Some of these disorders, in particular neuropsychological ones, are clinically confirmed by General Practitioners, and are consistent with different noise exposure levels.
