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NIH R01 · 2024

Greenness, Cognitive Performance and Vascular Outcomes in the NOMAS Study

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD), age-related cognitive decline, stroke, and heart disease are pressing public health problems with high prevalence in racial/ethnic minority older adults. Building on our strong cross-sectional findings linking greenness exposure (vegetative presence) to lower rates of chronic diseases -- including AD, cardiometabolic indicators (diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia), heart disease and stroke -- we propose to investigate neighborhood greenness exposure as a novel environmental protective factor for cognitive decline and vascular outcomes (stroke, myocardial infarction [MI] and vascular death). The proposed study will be the first to…

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