Neighborhood Walkability and Cardiovascular Risk in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood walkability may be associated with increased physical activity and thus may confer protection against cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors. We sought to characterize the association between neighborhood-level cardiovascular diseases and risk factors with neighborhood walkability across US census tracts.We linked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PLACES dataset which provided census-tract level prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, and diabetes), with census tract population-weighted national walkability index (NWI) from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We calculated the mean prevalence of each cardiovascular health indicator per quartile of the walkabil

SUBMITTER: Makhlouf MHE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892210 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature