Associations between social and built environments and cardiovascular disease mortality across 342 Latin American cities: results from the SALURBAL study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Latin American cities have heterogeneous mortality and urban environment profiles. We aim to describe the variability in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality across and within cities, and within and between Latin American countries, and investigate the associations between urban environmental features and CVD mortality in these areas.

Methods

Using harmonised data from the Salud Urbana en América Latina (i.e. Urban Health in Latin America) project, we investigated associations between urban features and CVD mortality in 342 Latin American cities encompassing 1252 sub-city units in nine Latin American countries. We obtained CVD mortality data from vital statistics and population denominators from national census bureaus. We evaluated the social environment throug

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira DCRS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12577666 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature