The neighborhoods where individuals reside shape environmental exposures, access to
resources, and opportunities. The inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death and a major
source of health disparities in the Unites States and globally. Efforts to reduce CVD risk and …

Efforts to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease have traditionally focused on individual-
level risk factors. However, recent work has highlighted the role of residential environments …

Background Living in a socially deprived neighborhood is associated with lifestyle risk
factors, eg, smoking, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet, as well as an increased risk of …

While the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors has decreased in the United States in
recent years, cardiovascular disparities by sex and race persist. Among the factors …

Cardiovascular disease disparities are shaped by differences in risk factors across racial
and ethnic groups. Housing remains an important social determinant of health. The objective …

Importance Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US. However, little is
known about the association between cumulative environmental burden and cardiovascular …

Background—The concept of cardiovascular health (CVH) was introduced as a global
measure of one's burden of cardiovsacular risk factors. Previous studies established the …

Methods We examined the relationship between neighborhood-level food access and
walkability on premature CVD mortality rates at the census tract level for the city of Atlanta …

Background: It has been postulated that neighbourhood conditions are related to the health
of the elderly population but longitudinal studies are rare and confounding by individual …