Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees

Enhanced immune functioning in response to biodiversity may explain potential health benefits from exposure to green space. Using unique data on urban forest biodiversity at the zip code level for California measured from 2014 to 2019 we test whether greater diversity of street trees is associated w...

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Autores principales:	John J. Giacinto, G. Andrew Fricker, Matthew Ritter, Jenn Yost, Jacqueline Doremus
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:79a00e1b0e1b4e419f8bc560cf2eced32021-11-11T07:14:44ZUrban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees1932-6203https://doaj.org/article/79a00e1b0e1b4e419f8bc560cf2eced32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565780/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Enhanced immune functioning in response to biodiversity may explain potential health benefits from exposure to green space. Using unique data on urban forest biodiversity at the zip code level for California measured from 2014 to 2019 we test whether greater diversity of street trees is associated with reduced death from cardiovascular disease. We find that urban forests with greater biodiversity measured via the Shannon Index at the genus level are associated with a lower mortality rate for heart disease and stroke. Our estimates imply that increasing the Shannon Index by one standard deviation (0.64) is associated with a decrease in the mortality rate of 21.4 per 100,000 individuals for heart disease or 13% and 7.7 per 100,000 individuals for stroke or 16%. Our estimates remain robust across several sensitivity checks. A policy simulation for tree planting in Los Angeles based on our estimates suggests that if these relationships were causal, investment in planting for a more biodiverse set of street trees would be a cost-effective way to reduce mortality related to cardiovascular disease in urban areas.John J. GiacintoG. Andrew FrickerMatthew RitterJenn YostJacqueline DoremusPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
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description	Enhanced immune functioning in response to biodiversity may explain potential health benefits from exposure to green space. Using unique data on urban forest biodiversity at the zip code level for California measured from 2014 to 2019 we test whether greater diversity of street trees is associated with reduced death from cardiovascular disease. We find that urban forests with greater biodiversity measured via the Shannon Index at the genus level are associated with a lower mortality rate for heart disease and stroke. Our estimates imply that increasing the Shannon Index by one standard deviation (0.64) is associated with a decrease in the mortality rate of 21.4 per 100,000 individuals for heart disease or 13% and 7.7 per 100,000 individuals for stroke or 16%. Our estimates remain robust across several sensitivity checks. A policy simulation for tree planting in Los Angeles based on our estimates suggests that if these relationships were causal, investment in planting for a more biodiverse set of street trees would be a cost-effective way to reduce mortality related to cardiovascular disease in urban areas.
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author	John J. Giacinto G. Andrew Fricker Matthew Ritter Jenn Yost Jacqueline Doremus
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title	Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees
title_short	Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees
title_full	Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees
title_fullStr	Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees
title_full_unstemmed	Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees
title_sort	urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: potential health benefits from california’s street trees
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/79a00e1b0e1b4e419f8bc560cf2eced3
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Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees

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