Residential greenness and blood lipids in urban-dwelling adults: The 33 Communities Chinese Health Study

While exposure to places with higher greenness shows health benefits, evidence is scarce on its lipidemic effects. We assessed the associations between residential greenness and blood lipids and effect mediations by air pollution, physical activity, and adiposity in China. Our study included 15,477 adults from the population-based 33 Communities Chinese Health Study, conducted between April and December 2009, in Northeastern China. We measured total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Residential greenness was estimated using two satellite-derived vegetation indices - the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI). We used both nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particles

Yang, B. Y.

Markevych, I.

Heinrich, J.

Bloom, M. S.

Qian, Z.

Geiger, S. D.

Vaughn, M.

Liu, S.

Guo, Y.

Dharmage, S. C.

Jalaludin, B.

Knibbs, L. D.

Chen, D.

Jalava, P.

Lin, S.

Hung-Lam Yim, S.

Liu, K. K.

Zeng, X. W.

Hu, L. W.

Dong, G. H.