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Song J, Gasparrini A, Fischer T, Hu K, Lu Y. Effect Modifications of Overhead-View and Eye-Level Urban Greenery on Heat-Mortality Associations: Small-Area Analyses Using Case Time Series Design and Different Greenery Measurements. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2023; 131:97007. [PMID: 37728899 PMCID: PMC10510815 DOI: 10.1289/ehp12589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The protective effect of urban greenery from adverse heat impacts remains inconclusive. Existing inconsistent findings could be attributed to the different estimation techniques used. OBJECTIVES We investigated how effect modifications of urban greenery on heat-mortality associations vary when using different greenery measurements reflecting overhead-view and eye-level urban greenery. METHODS We collected meteorological and daily mortality data for 286 territory planning units between 2005 and 2018 in Hong Kong. Three greenery measurements were extracted for each unit: a) the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from Landsat remote sensing images, b) the percentage of greenspace based on land use data, and c) eye-level street greenery from street view images via a deep learning technique. Time-series analyses were performed using the case time series design with a linear interaction between the temperature term and each of the three greenery measurements. Effect modifications were also estimated for different age groups, sex categories, and cause-specific diseases. RESULTS Higher mortality risks were associated with both moderate and extreme heat, with relative risks (RRs) of 1.022 (95% CI: 1.000, 1.044) and 1.045 (95% CI: 1.013, 1.079) at the 90th and 99th percentiles of temperatures relative to the minimum mortality temperature (MMT). Lower RRs were observed in greener areas whichever of the three greenery measurements was used, but the disparity of RRs between areas with low and high levels of urban greenery was more apparent when using eye-level street greenery as the index at high temperatures (99th percentile relative to MMT), with RRs for low and high levels of greenery, respectively, of 1.096 (95% CI: 1.035, 1.161) and 0.985 (95% CI: 0.920, 1.055) for NDVI (p = 0.0193 ), 1.068 (95% CI: 1.021, 1.117) and 0.990 (95% CI: 0.906, 1.081) for the percentage of greenspace (p = 0.1338 ), and 1.103 (95% CI: 1.034, 1.177) and 0.943 (95% CI: 0.841, 1.057) for eye-level street greenery (p = 0.0186 ). Health discrepancies remained for nonaccidental mortality and cardiorespiratory diseases and were more apparent for older adults (≥ 65 years of age) and females. DISCUSSION This study provides new evidence that eye-level street greenery shows stronger associations with reduced heat-mortality risks compared with overhead-view greenery based on NDVI and percentage of greenspace. The effect modification of urban greenery tends to be amplified as temperatures rise and are more apparent in older adults and females. Heat mitigation strategies and health interventions, in particular with regard to accessible and visible greenery, are needed for helping heat-sensitive subpopulation groups in coping with extreme heat. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12589.
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- Jinglu Song
- Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Public Health, Environment and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Environmental Assessment and Management Research Centre, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Institute of Big Data in Health Science, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
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Ho JY, Lam HYC, Huang Z, Liu S, Goggins WB, Mo PKH, Chan EYY. Factors affecting outdoor physical activity in extreme temperatures in a sub-tropical Chinese urban population: an exploratory telephone survey. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:101. [PMID: 36641429 PMCID: PMC9840260 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14788-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) can be affected by extreme temperatures, however fewer studies have identified factors impacting this relationship. This study sought to identify factors associated with changes of outdoor PA during extreme cold/heat events in a sub-tropical Chinese urban population, including factors of sociodemographic, health conditions, temperature-related awareness and attitude, and protective behaviours. METHODS Two telephone surveys were conducted a week after extreme cold/heat events in 2016 and 2017 among a cohort of Hong Kong residents over age 15. Data was collected on self-reported changes in outdoor PA level during the periods of extreme temperatures, health status, comorbidities, sociodemographic, and temperature-related awareness, and behavioural variables. We conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses to assess predictors of change in outdoor PA over the two extreme temperature events. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Among 435 participants (42.8% response rate), over a third of the participants reported decreased outdoor PA level in extreme temperature events, while 10% reported an increase in extreme heat. Self-reported cardiovascular diseases were associated with decreased PA level in extreme cold, while hypertension was associated with unchanged/increased PA level in extreme heat. These results suggest physical activity to be an important consideration in the understanding of climate change-and-health pathways and meriting further research.
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- Janice Y. Ho
- grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- grid.7445.20000 0001 2113 8111Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Hong Kong, China
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- grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ,grid.10784.3a0000 0004 1937 0482Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Hong Kong, China ,GX Foundation, Hong Kong, China ,grid.4991.50000 0004 1936 8948Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Li T, Yu Z, Xu L, Wu Y, Yu L, Yang Z, Shen P, Lin H, Shui L, Tang M, Jin M, Chen K, Wang J. Residential greenness, air pollution, and incident ischemic heart disease: A prospective cohort study in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 838:155881. [PMID: 35569653 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Greener residential surroundings are associated with beneficial health outcomes, whereas higher air pollution exposure is linked with elevated risks of chronic diseases. To date, limited studies have explored the interaction between residential greenness and air pollution on the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). We performed a prospective cohort study that included 29,141 adult participants recruited from Yinzhou District, Ningbo, China. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) around each participant's residence was calculated to measure residential greenness exposure. Land-use regression models were conducted to estimate long-term individual exposure to air pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and ≤10 μm (PM10). Cox proportional hazard models were used to calculate the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for the associations of residential greenness and air pollutants with the risk of incident IHD. During 101,172.5 person-years of follow-up, 1392 incident IHD cases were reported in the study population. Residential greenness, expressed as an interquartile range (IQR) increase in NDVI within 250 m, was inversely associated with incident IHD (HR = 0.89, 95%CI: 0.81,0.98). However, long-term exposures to air pollution were associated with higher IHD incidence (HR = 1.21, 95%CI:1.10,1.33 per IQR increase for PM2.5; HR = 1.12, 95%CI:1.03,1.22 per IQR increase for PM10; HR = 1.09, 95%CI:1.02,1.16 per IQR increase for NO2). Mediation analyses suggested that the beneficial effect of residential greenness on incident IHD could be partly mediated by reducing the exposure to PM2.5. These findings suggested that higher greenness was associated with decreased risk of IHD, while air pollutants were positively associated with incident IHD. Meanwhile, residential greenness may decrease the risk of IHD by reducing exposure to PM2.5.
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- Tiezheng Li
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Zhejiang University School of Public Health, Zhejiang University 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, Yinzhou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1221 Xueshi Road, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, China
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- Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, Yinzhou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1221 Xueshi Road, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, China
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- Yinzhou District Health Bureau of Ningbo, 1221 Xueshi Road, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School Public Health and the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China..
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at School of Public Health and National Clinical Research Center for Child Health of the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Ho JY, Goggins WB, Mo PKH, Chan EYY. The effect of temperature on physical activity: an aggregated timeseries analysis of smartphone users in five major Chinese cities. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2022; 19:68. [PMID: 35701809 PMCID: PMC9195465 DOI: 10.1186/s12966-022-01285-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Physical activity is an important factor in premature mortality reduction, non-communicable disease prevention, and well-being protection. Climate change will alter temperatures globally, with impacts already found on mortality and morbidity. While uncomfortable temperature is often perceived as a barrier to physical activity, the actual impact of temperature on physical activity has been less well studied, particularly in China. This study examined the associations between temperature and objectively measured physical activity among adult populations in five major Chinese cities. Methods Aggregated anonymized step count data was obtained between December 2017-2018 for five major Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. The associations of temperature with daily aggregated mean step count were assessed using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs), adjusted for meteorological, air pollution, and time-related variables. Results Significant decreases in step counts during periods of high temperatures were found for cold or temperate climate cities (Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing), with maximum physical activity occurring between 16 and 19.3 °C. High temperatures were associated with decreases of 800-1500 daily steps compared to optimal temperatures. For cities in subtropical climates (Shenzhen and Hong Kong), non-significant declines were found with high temperatures. Overall, females and the elderly demonstrated lower optimal temperatures for physical activity and larger decreases of step count in warmer temperatures. Conclusions As minor reductions in physical activity could consequentially affect health, an increased awareness of temperature’s impact on physical activity is necessary. City-wide adaptations and physical activity interventions should seek ways to sustain physical activity levels in the face of shifting temperatures from climate change. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12966-022-01285-1.
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- Janice Y Ho
- The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. .,Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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