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Environmental determinants of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health: interactive roles of air pollution, heat waves, and green spaces

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Ao Li, Ao Li, Chuangsen Fang, Yanming Li

Summary

This study examined how multiple environmental stressors, including air pollution, heat waves, and green spaces, interact to influence cardiovascular disease risk in populations with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic conditions. The findings provide evidence that these environmental factors do not act in isolation but interact in ways that affect overall disease risk. The study highlights the importance of integrated environmental and public health strategies for vulnerable populations.

Our findings provide novel evidence that multiple environmental stressors interact to influence CVD risk in the CKM population, highlighting the importance of integrated environmental and public health strategies.

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