ArticleToxics2021
Residential Green and Blue Spaces and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Health Study in China.
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- Association of greenspaces exposure with cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Pooled it
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- Early life stress enhances the association between residential nature exposure and fasting blood glucose.PloS one · 2026Article
- The association between heatwave exposure and the risk of incident diabetes in middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study based on CHARLS.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Residential greenness and diabetes incidence in two prospective cohorts of US women.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Associations among vegetation cover, particulate matter, and cardiovascular health in urban environments: a path analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Simulating the impact of greenspace exposure on metabolic biomarkers in a diverse population living in San Diego, California: A g-computation application.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Unveiling causal connections: Long-term particulate matter exposure and type 2 diabetes mellitus mortality in Southern China.Ecotoxicology and environmental safety · 2024Article
- Lower regional urbanicity and socioeconomic status attenuate associations of green spaces with hypertension and diabetes mellitus: a national representative cross-sectional study in China.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2024Article
- The role of extreme heat exposure on premature rupture of membranes in Southern California: A study from a large pregnancy cohort.Environment international · 2023Article
- The neighbourhood environment and profiles of the metabolic syndrome.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- Residential greenness is associated with disease severity among COVID-19 patients aged over 45 years in Wuhan, China.Ecotoxicology and environmental safety · 2022Article
- A negative association between prevalence of diabetes and urban residential area greenness detected in nationwide assessment of urban Bangladesh.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Evidence on the health benefits of green space in residential environments is still limited, and few studies have investigated the potential association between blue space and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevalence. This study included 39,019 participants who had completed the baseline survey from the Henan Rural Cohort Study, 2015-2017. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) were employed to characterize the residential green space, and the distance from the participant's residential address to the nearest water body was considered to represent the residential blue space. Mixed effect models were applied to evaluate the associations of the residential environment with T2DM and fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels. An interquartile range (IQR) increase in NDVI and EVI was significantly associated with a 13.4% (odds ratio (OR): 0.866, 95% Confidence interval (CI): 0.830,0.903) and 14.2% (OR: 0.858, 95% CI: 0.817,0.901) decreased risk of T2DM, respectively. The residential green space was associated with lower fasting blood glucose levels in men (%change, -2.060 in men vs. -0.972 in women) and the elderly (%change, -1.696 in elderly vs. -1.268 in young people). Additionally, people who lived more than 5 km from the water body had a 15.7% lower risk of T2DM (OR: 0.843, 95% CI: 0.770,0.923) and 1.829% lower fasting blood glucose levels (95% CI: -2.335%,-1.320%) than those who lived closer to the blue space. Our findings suggest that residential green space was beneficially associated with T2DM and fasting blood glucose levels. However, further research is needed to explore more comprehensively the relationship between residential blue space and public health.
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