Aruni Bhatnagar, Rachel Keith, Ray Yeager, Daniel Riggs, Clara Sears, Brent Bucknum, Ted Smith, Daniel Fleischer, Chris Chandler, Kandi L Walker, Joy L Hart, Sanjay Srivastava, Jay Turner, Shesh Rai
The Green Heart Project is a community-based trial to evaluate the effects of increasing greenery on urban environment and community health. The study was initiated in 2018 in a low-to-middle-income mixed-race residential area of nearly 28,000 residents in Louisville, KY. The 4 square mile area was surveyed for land use, population characteristics, and greenness, and assigned to 8 paired clusters of demographically- and environmentally matched "target" (T) and adjacent "control" (C), clusters. Ambient levels of ultrafine particles, ozone, oxides of nitrogen, and environmental noise were measured in each cluster...
December 5, 2023: medRxiv