Association between Residential Greenness and Incidence of Parkinson's Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: It is widely known that exposure to residential greenness is beneficial for health. However, few studies have analyzed the association between greenery and Parkinson's disease (PD). We selected 313,355 participants who matched the inclusion criteria from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort, followed up from 2007 to 2015. Residential greenness, represented by the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), was obtained from satellite measurements. We estimated hazard ratios of PD associated with a 0.1-unit increase in long-term greenness exposure at the district level for the previous 1 year of each year until a censoring/event occurred, using time-varying Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for individual- and area-level characteristics. During the 2,745,38

SUBMITTER: Jung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8951185 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature