ArticleEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)2020
The contribution of residential greenness to mortality among men with prostate cancer: a registry-based cohort study of Black and White men.
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backgroundBlack men with prostate cancer (CaP) experience excess mortality compared with White men. Residential greenness, a health promoting contextual factor, could explain racial disparities in mortality among men with CaP.
methodsWe identified Pennsylvania Cancer Registry cases diagnosed between January 2000 and December 2015. Totally, 128,568 participants were followed until death or 1 January 2018, whichever occurred first. Residential exposure at diagnosis was characterized using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with 250 m resolution. We estimated hazard ratios (HRs) using Cox models, adjusting for area-level socioeconomic status, geographic healthcare access, and segregation. To determine whether increasing residential greenness could reduce racial disparities, we compared standardized 10-year mortality Black-White risk differences under a hypothetical intervention fixing NDVI to the 75th percentile of NDVI experienced by White men.
resultsWe observed 29,978 deaths over 916,590 person-years. Comparing men in the highest to lowest NDVI quintile, all-cause (adjusted HR [aHR]: 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.84, 0.92, DISCUSSION: Residential greenness was associated with lower mortality among men with CaP, but findings suggest that increasing residential greenness would have limited impact on racial disparities in mortality.
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