Research article

The Urban Environment and Cardiometabolic Health

CirculationPublished

  • Narrative review

Authors' conclusion

This review demonstrates that cities represent crucial settings for implementing policies and interventions to simultaneously tackle the global epidemics of cardiovascular disease and climate change.

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Associations between the urban exposome and cardiometabolic diseases
  • Cities represent crucial settings for policies and interventions to tackle CVD and climate change simultaneously
  • Critical knowledge gaps regarding built-environment feature thresholds for optimizing cardiometabolic health outcomes

Original publication

The Urban Environment and Cardiometabolic Health. Circulation. Published 15 April 2024. doi:10.1161/circulationaha.123.067461

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