ArticleEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)2020
The association between neighborhood greenness and incidence of lethal prostate cancer: A prospective cohort study.
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- Urology on a changing planet: links between climate change and urological disease.Nature reviews. Urology · 2025Review
- Greenness and its interaction with air pollution in relation to postmenopausal breast cancer risk in UK Biobank.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Are Neighborhood Greenspaces Associated with Leisure-time Physical Activity? Results from ELSA-Brasil Eight-year Follow-up.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- An exploratory analysis of the impact of area-level exposome on geographic disparities in aggressive prostate cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Access to Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing and Mortality Among Men With Prostate Cancer.JAMA network open · 2024Article
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- A Multiscale Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Analysis of Neighborhood Correlates of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024Article
- The Green Heart Project: Objectives, Design, and Methods.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Influence of Neighborhood Social and Natural Environment on Prostate Tumor Histology in a Cohort of Male Health Professionals.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Review
- Neighborhood environment and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer admissions: a prospective study using UK Biobank and linked hospital records.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Article
- Invited Perspective: Can My Smartphone Assess My Exposure? The Potential to Retroactively Estimate Personalized Exposures using Smartphone Location Data.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Racial disparities in prostate cancer among black men: epidemiology and outcomes.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundGrowing evidence suggests that neighborhood contextual environment could influence risk factors and, therefore, incidence of lethal prostate cancer. We studied the association between neighborhood greenness and lethal prostate cancer incidence and assessed mediation by vigorous physical activity.
methodsA total of 47,958 participants were followed in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986 to 2014. Neighborhood greenness exposure was estimated using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with 1 km resolution, assigned to home or work addresses at start of follow-up. Adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using sequentially adjusted Cox models with individual and contextual prostate cancer risk factors as covariates. Analyses were compared among those whose addresses were constant over follow-up and stratified by population density and address type.
resultsWe observed 898 cases over 1,054,743 person-years. An interquartile range increase in NDVI was associated with 5% lower rate of lethal prostate cancer (aHR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.88, 1.03), with stronger associations in nonmovers (aHR = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.85, 1.01). Inverse associations were observed among men in high (aHR = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.82, 0.99) but not low (aHR = 1.11, 95% CI = 0.95, 1.29,
conclusionWe report inverse associations between neighborhood greenness and lethal prostate cancer when restricting to nonmovers and in high population density areas. Replication could confirm findings and clarify mechanisms.
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