Long-term exposure to greenspace and metabolic syndrome: A Whitehall II study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metabolic syndrome is an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke. Long-term exposure to greenspace could be protective of metabolic syndrome, but evidence for such an association is lacking. Accordingly, we investigated the association between long-term exposure to greenspace and risk of metabolic syndrome.

Methods

The present longitudinal study was based on data from four clinical examinations between 1997 and 2013 in 6076 participants of the Whitehall II study, UK (aged 45-69 years at baseline). Long-term exposure to greenspace was assessed by satellite-based indices of greenspace including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) averaged acr

SUBMITTER: de Keijzer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7441228 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature