ArticleEnvironmental research letters : ERL [Web site]2021
The roles of residential greenness in the association between air pollution and health: a systematic review.
Article in Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site], 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed.
- PMEnvironmental health perspectives · 2026Article
- The combined impact of chemical and non-chemical stressors on adverse health outcomes: an overview of reviews from the epidemiological literature and experimental animal studies.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Review
- Association between residential greenness and preeclampsia in Japan.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Extreme Heat and NO 2 Exposures on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Association of Park Size, Access and Neighbourhood Walkability with Physical Activity and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Mixtures of key components of the external exposome in association with MRI biomarkers of brain structure: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Long-term PM2.5 exposure and mental health disparities: A prospective analysis of the All of Us Research Program.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Local environmental attributes and type 2 diabetes: Green amenities, walkability indicators, and air pollution are associated with incidence.Environment international · 2025Article
- Exploring effects of greenness and extreme heat exposure on hypertension incidence in elderly Chinese: a national cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Greenspace and Survival Among Older Women With Breast Cancer: Regional Variations Within the U.S. SEER-Medicare-Linked Database.JACC. Advances · 2025Article
- Medium-term Exposure to Wildfire Smoke PM 2.5 and Cardiorespiratory Hospitalization Risks.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Air pollution, greenspace, and metabolic syndrome in older Czech and Swiss populations.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Effects of urban greenspace on time to major adverse cardiovascular events among women with breast cancer in the US: Insights from the Greater Milwaukee, WI Area.Health & place · 2025Article
- Fine Particulate Matter, Its Constituents, and Spontaneous Preterm Birth.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- A cohort study of the multipollutant effects of PMEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Long-term exposure to PMBMC public health · 2024Article
- Neurosustainability.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Associations between air pollution, residential greenness, and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in three prospective cohorts of U.S. adults.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Urban Air Pollution and Greenness in Relation to Public Health.Journal of environmental and public health · 2023Article
- Effects of Composite Air Pollution and Genetic Susceptibility on Tinnitus Risk: A Large Population-Based Study.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-facialeArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
While a growing body of literature suggests beneficial impacts of greenness on several health outcomes, relatively few studies have examined greenness as an effect modifier to impacts of air pollution on health outcomes, and results from the existing studies are inconclusive. We performed a comprehensive, systematic review of previous literature on greenness as a potential effect modifier for associations between particulate matter air pollution and health. After initial screening of 7814 studies, we identified 20 eligible studies. We summarized findings on study characteristics based on several criteria: health outcome, air pollution exposure, source of air pollution data, study location, study period, and median year of the study period. We evaluated characteristics of effect modification by greenness on air pollution and health associations based on the number of greenness metrics applied, type of greenness metric (e.g. normalized difference vegetation index, land use), data source for greenness, and spatial resolution and buffer size. We also summarized evidence for effect modification by greenness based on strength and direction of evidence for each study and overall evidence of effect modification by greenness by several study characteristics. Our systematic review showed that only a limited number of studies have been conducted on greenness as an effect modifier for air pollution-health associations. We found differences in several study characteristics such as greenness assessment (e.g. greenness metrics applied, spatial resolution, and data sources) across studies. Collectively, the studies provide suggestive evidence for the hypothesis that areas with high greenness have lower impacts of air pollution on health, although some studies reported inconsistent findings. The findings from our review provide valuable knowledge on how greenness affects associations between air pollution and health and could help identify critical areas for future study.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.