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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Association Between the Activity Space Exposure to Parks in Childhood and Adolescence and Cognitive Aging in Later Life.

Mark P C Cherrie, Niamh K Shortt, Catharine Ward Thompson, Ian J Deary, Jamie R Pearce

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Life Course Nature Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Future Directions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  4. Urban greenspace and dementia: Measures, mechanisms, and methodological guidance.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  7. Infant Care: Predictors of Outdoor Walking, Infant Carrying and Infant Outdoor Sleeping.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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5 authors.

Mark P C CherrieCentre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK. mark.cherrie@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-2822-9459
Niamh K ShorttCentre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK. Niamh.Shortt@ed.ac.uk.
Catharine Ward ThompsonOPENspace Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK. c.ward-thompson@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-9563-0026
Ian J DearyCentre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK. iand@exseed.ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1733-263X
Jamie R PearceCentre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK. jamie.pearce@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0994-7140

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilMedical Research Council G0700704Medical Research Council MR/K026992/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The exposure to green space in early life may support better cognitive aging in later life. However, this exposure is usually measured using the residential location alone. This disregards the exposure to green spaces in places frequented during daily activities (i.e., the 'activity space'). Overlooking the multiple locations visited by an individual over the course of a day is likely to result in poor estimation of the environmental exposure and therefore exacerbates the contextual uncertainty. A child's activity space is influenced by factors including age, sex, and the parental perception of the neighborhood. This paper develops indices of park availability based on individuals' activity spaces (home, school, and the optimal route to school). These measures are used to examine whether park availability in childhood is related to cognitive change much later in life. Multi-level linear models, including random effects for schools, were used to test the association between park availability during childhood and adolescence and cognitive aging (age 70 to 76) in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 participants (N = 281). To test for the effect modification, these models were stratified by sex and road traffic accident (RTA) density. Park availability during adolescence was associated with better cognitive aging at a concurrently low RTA density (β = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.36 to 1.60), but not when the RTA density was higher (β = 0.22, 95% CI: -0.07 to 0.51). Green space exposure during early life may be important for optimal cognitive aging; this should be evidenced using activity space-based measures within a life-course perspective.

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Cognitive AgingParks, RecreationalAccidents, TrafficAdolescentAdultAgedChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMalePerceptionResidence CharacteristicsScotlandactivity spacecognitive agingenvironmental exposuresgreen spacelife-course perspectivesroad traffic accidents

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PMID30795527
PMCPMC6406333

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