ReviewEuropean heart journal2021
Heart healthy cities: genetics loads the gun but the environment pulls the trigger.
Review in European heart journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
64 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- National Heart Center/Saudi Heart Association 2025 Guidelines for Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Risk Assessment.Saudi medical journal · 2026Guideline
- Recommendations for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in primary care: a systematic guideline review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Research opportunities to advance cardiovascular health through a planetary health lens.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2026Review
- [Noise and the heart].Herz · 2026Review
- Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in China: Calling for New-Era Strategies.JACC. Asia · 2026Review
- [Heart and climate].Herz · 2026Review
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- Uneven integration of health in China's territorial spatial planning 2035.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Dirty Earth, Diseased Hearts: Soil, Water, and Plastic Pollution in the Cardiovascular Exposome.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2026Article
- Zonal determinants of healthy aging: An exposomic analysis of determinants of healthy cardiovascular aging in Ohio.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2026Article
- Trends and future projections of the disease burden of pulmonary arterial Hypertension-related heart failure in China and G20 countries: Based on the global burden of disease 2023 database.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2026Article
- Environmental Stressors and Cardiovascular Health: Acting Locally for Global Impact in a Changing World: A Statement of the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the World Heart Federation.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2026Article
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- Environmental stressors and cardiovascular health: acting locally for global impact in a changing world.European heart journal · 2026Article
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- Enhancing Urban Health Through a Community of Practice to Promote Active Lifestyle in a Population with Chronic Diseases: The +ACTIU Project.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Personal, social, and natural co-exposure pattern and plasma proteins in cardiometabolic diseases.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Comprehensive perceptions at the interface between health and environment: Applications models with a citizen science tool.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Advancing equitable and sustainable urban health.Nature medicine · 2025Review
4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
9 authors.
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Abstract
The world's population is estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050 and 75% of this population will live in cities. Two-third of the European population already live in urban areas and this proportion continues to grow. Between 60% and 80% of the global energy use is consumed by urban areas, with 70% of the greenhouse gas emissions produced within urban areas. The World Health Organization states that city planning is now recognized as a critical part of a comprehensive solution to tackle adverse health outcomes. In the present review, we address non-communicable diseases with a focus on cardiovascular disease and the urbanization process in relation to environmental risk exposures including noise, air pollution, temperature, and outdoor light. The present review reports why heat islands develop in urban areas, and how greening of cities can improve public health, and address climate concerns, sustainability, and liveability. In addition, we discuss urban planning, transport interventions, and novel technologies to assess external environmental exposures, e.g. using digital technologies, to promote heart healthy cities in the future. Lastly, we highlight new paradigms of integrative thinking such as the exposome and planetary health, challenging the one-exposure-one-health-outcome association and expand our understanding of the totality of human environmental exposures.
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