NIH R01 · 2024
Urban Greenness and Cardiovascular Health
ABSTRACT Although the results of many studies suggest that urban greenspaces have conducive effects of health, from extant data it is difficult to isolate causal links or to identify the environmental and physiological processes that contribute to the health-promoting effect of greenery. A better understanding and assessment of the health effects of urban greenness is, therefore, needed to optimize its public health impact. To examine the effects of greenness directly, we initiated the Green Heart Project, which is a community based clinical trial to test the hypothesis that increasing neighborhood greenery diminishes the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by decreasing the levels of…
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