Sanjay Rajagopalan, Armando Vergara-Martel, Jeffrey Zhong, Haitham Khraishah, Mikhail Kosiborod, Ian J Neeland, Jean-Eudes Dazard, Zhuo Chen, Thomas Munzel, Robert D Brook, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Hovmand, Sadeer Al-Kindi
Urban environments contribute substantially to the rising burden of cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. Cities are complex adaptive systems that continually exchange resources, shaping exposures relevant to human health such as air pollution, noise, and chemical exposures. In addition, urban infrastructure and provisioning systems influence multiple domains of health risk, including behaviors, psychological stress, pollution, and nutrition through various pathways (eg, physical inactivity, air pollution, noise, heat stress, food systems, the availability of green space, and contaminant exposures)...
April 16, 2024: Circulation