ArticleEnvironmental research2021
Neighborhood greenness and burden of non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country cross-sectional study.
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- Greenspaces And Cardiovascular Health.Circulation research · 2024Review
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- Influence of Neighborhood Social and Natural Environment on Prostate Tumor Histology in a Cohort of Male Health Professionals.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Contrasting Hygiene-Related Gastrointestinal Infections and Stress-Related Diseases at a Primary Health Care Facility within a Sub-Saharan African City: Before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Is residential greenness associated with dyslipidemia and lipid levels in Chinese rural-dwelling adults? The Henan rural cohort study.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Failure is not an option: Barriers to HIV treatment adherence in Kampala, Uganda.Health & place · 2021Article
- Associations between residential greenness and self-reported heart disease in Sri Lankan men: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Population growth, demographic transitions and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will increase non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. We studied the association between neighborhood greenness and NCDs in a multi-country cross-sectional study. Among 1178 participants, in adjusted models, a 0.11 unit NDVI increase was associated with lower BMI (β: -1.01, 95% CI: -1.35, -0.67), and lower odds of overweight/obesity (aOR: 0.73, 95% CI: 0.62, 0.85), diabetes (aOR: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.62, 0.96), and having ≥3 allostatic load components compared to none (aOR: 0.66, 95% CI: 0.52, 0.85). Except for diabetes, these remained statistically significant after Bonferroni correction. We observed no association between NDVI and hypertension or cholesterol. Our findings are consistent with health benefits of neighborhood greenness reported in other countries, suggesting greening strategies could be considered as part of broader public health interventions for NCDs.
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