Associations of Urban Environment Features with Hypertension and Blood Pressure across 230 Latin American Cities.
Ione Avila-PalenciaDaniel A RodriguezJuan Jaime MirandaKari MooreNelson GouveiaMika R MoranWaleska T CaiaffaAna V Diez RouxPublished in: Environmental health perspectives (2022)
Our results suggest that urban physical environment features-such as fragmentation, mass transit, population density, and intersection density-may be related to hypertension in Latin American cities. Reducing chronic disease risks in the growing urban areas of Latin America may require attention to integrated management of urban design and transport planning. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7870.