Contribution of the neighborhood environment to cross-sectional variation in long-term CVD risk scores in the Framingham Heart Study.

Few studies of the health impact of the built environment have examined downstream outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease. We analyzed the neighborhood-level proportional variance in the 10- and 30-year Framingham risk scores (FRS) in the Framingham Heart Study. Our analysis included 3,103 Offspri...

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Main Authors: Todd R Sponholtz, Ramachandran S Vasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6078286?pdf=render