ArticleThe Science of the total environment2022
Mortality risk associated with greenness, air pollution, and physical activity in a representative U.S. cohort.
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- Physical Activity, Air Pollution, and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
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- Joint exposure to PMFrontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Association Between Urban Green Space and Acute Exacerbations of COPD in Korea: A Nationwide Study Using the NHIS-NSC Cohort.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Article
- Urban residential greenness and cancer mortality: Evaluating the causal mediation role of air pollution in a large cohort.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2024Article
- The impact of green space on nonaccidental and cause-specific mortality in the Adventist Health Study-2 population.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- The effect of residential greenness on cardiovascular mortality from a large cohort in South China: An in-depth analysis of effect modification by multiple demographic and lifestyle characteristics.Environment international · 2024Article
- Long-term exposure to air pollution on cardio-respiratory, and lung cancer mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2024Review
- Long-term exposure to air pollution and risk of stroke by ecoregions: The REGARDS study.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2024Article
- Invited Perspective: A Natural Prescription for Hypertension?Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Long-term ambient air pollution exposure and prospective change in sedentary behaviour and physical activity in individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes in the UK.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Potential causal links and mediation pathway between urban greenness and lung cancer mortality: Result from a large cohort (2009 to 2020).Sustainable cities and society · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Impacts of Precision Greenness on Alzheimer's Disease.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2024Article
- Associations of long-term fine particulate matter exposure with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: results from the ChinaHEART project.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
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Abstract
Several cohort studies suggest greenness is associated with decreased mortality risk. Potential confounding by or interactions between physical activity and air pollution remains unclear. This study evaluates associations of greenness, air pollution, and physical activity with mortality risk and investigates confounding and effect modification across these key risk factors. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data covering 1997-2014 were linked to the National Death Index to generate a cohort of 403,748 individuals with 39,528 deaths. Greenness, represented by census-tract Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the seasonal period of May-October, was averaged over the years 2003-2016. Air pollution was estimated by census-tract level PM
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