The association between neighborhood greenness and incidence of lethal prostate cancer: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Growing evidence suggests that neighborhood contextual environment could influence risk factors and, therefore, incidence of lethal prostate cancer. We studied the association between neighborhood greenness and lethal prostate cancer incidence and assessed mediation by vigorous physical activity.

Methods

A total of 47,958 participants were followed in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986 to 2014. Neighborhood greenness exposure was estimated using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with 1 km resolution, assigned to home or work addresses at start of follow-up. Adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using sequentially adjusted Cox models with individual and contextual prostate cancer risk factors as

SUBMITTER: Iyer HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature