DEBATS is an on-going research program (2011-2018) involving adult residents around three French airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse-Blagnac, and Lyon Saint-Exupéry. It aims to characterize the relations between aircraft noise exposure and health status of the French population living in the vicinity of airports, both physically and mentally but also in terms of annoyance. In particular, it includes a longitudinal field study whose objective is to follow-up approximately 1,200 of the above-mentioned airports residents during four years. At inclusion and two and four years later, annoyance and health status (in terms of sleep disturbances, cardiovascular diseases and anxiety and depressive disorders) are assessed by a questionnaire asked by an interviewer at the place of residence of participants. Physiological variables like blood-pressure, heart rate or salivary cortisol are also considered within the frame of this study. A pilot study was performed in 2011 in order to test and validate the protocol on 100 residents around Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. The results of this pilot study will be presented and discussed. They will concern self-reported doctor-diagnosed hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, and measured blood-pressure, heart rate and salivary cortisol.
