Rural-urban disparities in the associations of residential greenness with diabetes and prediabetes among adults in southeastern China

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 860; p. 160492
• Main Authors: Yu, Wanqi, Li, Xiaoqing, Zhong, Wenling, Dong, Shu, Feng, Chuanteng, Yu, Bin, Lin, Xi, Yin, Yanrong, Chen, Tiehui, Yang, Shujuan, Jia, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 20.02.2023
• Subjects: Adult; air pollution; Air Pollution - analysis; blood glucose; body mass index; China; China - epidemiology; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology; environment; EVI; Greenness; Humans; Mediation analysis; NDVI; normalized difference vegetation index; Particulate Matter - analysis; people; physical activity; Prediabetes; Prediabetic State - epidemiology; regression analysis; risk; Rural Population; China; EVI; Diabetes; Greenness; Prediabetes; NDVI; Mediation analysis

Greenness offers health benefits to prevent diabetes in urban areas. However, urban-rural disparities in this association have not been explored, with the underlying pathways understudied as well. We aimed to investigate and compare the associations and potential pathways between residential greenne...