Changes in Residential Greenspace and Birth Outcomes among Siblings: Differences by Maternal Race.

ABSTRACT: Growing research investigates the perinatal health benefits of greenspace in a mother's prenatal environment. However, evidence of associations between residential greenspace and birth outcomes remains mixed, limiting the relevance this work holds for urban policy and greening interventions. Past research relies predominantly on cross-sectional designs that are vulnerable to residential selection bias, and rarely tests effect modification by maternal race/ethnicity, which may contribute to heterogeneous findings. This study uses a rigorous, longitudinal sibling comparison design and maternal fixed effect analyses to test whether increases in maternal exposure to residential greenspace between pregnancies precede improved birth outcomes among non-Hispanic (NH) white (n = 247,285) and

SUBMITTER: Gailey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10531468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature