Badal H Elias, Saad F Ramadhan and Dunia D Giliyana
Keywords: Blood pressure, noise pollution, school environment.
Abstract: The movement against noise pollution is weak in Duhok city, Kurdistan region in north of Iraq. Most of the people do not consider it as pollution and accept it as a part of their routine life. This paper reports a qualitative study that was carried out to investigate the noise pollution, and finds the relation between the occupational noise level and arterial blood pressure (Systolic Blood Pressure and Diastolic Blood Pressure). The Study Sample consisted of 180 pupils aged 16 years old and18 years old distributed equally in six schools (3 males and 3 females), studied school were selected in three different regions very noise, noise and quite. The noise levels measured during day school in the chosen schools and the arterial blood pressure were measured before and after exposure to noise for five hours. This study shows that after five hours of exposure to noise for pupils through the day school, there was a significant relation between the arterial blood pressure and sound pressure levels also shows that female\'s pupils were more affected by noise pollution than male\'s pupils at the same level of noise. While, the effected of noise pollution according to the pupils age shows there was no significant relation.
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