ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2020
Long-Term Greenspace Exposure and Progression of Arterial Stiffness: The Whitehall II Cohort Study.
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- Exposomic Determinants of Atherosclerosis: Recent Evidence.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025Review
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- Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Constituents and Vascular Damage in a Population with Metabolic Abnormality in China.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2023Article
- Visiting nature is associated with lower socioeconomic inequalities in well-being in Wales.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effects of greenness on preterm birth: A national longitudinal study of 3.7 million singleton births.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2022Article
- Associations of exposure to residential green space and neighborhood walkability with coronary atherosclerosis in Chinese adults.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2022Article
- Residential proximity to greenness mitigates the hemodynamic effects of ambient air pollution.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundArterial stiffness, and its progression with age, is an important indicator of cardiovascular aging. Greenspace exposure may protect against arterial stiffness by promoting physical activity, fostering social cohesion, and reducing stress and exposure to air pollution and noise.
objectivesThe aim of this study was to investigate the association of long-term exposure to outdoor greenspace with arterial stiffness and its progression over time.
methodsThis prospective cohort study was based on 4,349 participants (55-83 years of age) of the Whitehall II Study, United Kingdom. Arterial stiffness was assessed in two medical examinations (2007-2009 and 2012-2013) by measuring the carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). Residential surrounding greenspace was characterized using satellite-based indices of greenspace including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and vegetation continuous fields (VCF) across buffers of 500 and
resultsNo statistically significant associations were observed between residential surrounding greenspace and baseline or 4-y progression of cf-PWV; interquartile range (IQR) increases in NDVI, EVI, and VCF in the
conclusionsWe did not observe any consistent association between residential surrounding greenspace and arterial stiffness. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6159.
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