pharmaphorum March 28, 2024
An intriguing new study has suggested that there could be a correlation between the built environment of an area – its buildings, streets, and green spaces – and the risk of inhabitants developing coronary heart disease (CHD).
The scientists behind the work applied artificial intelligence to analyse Google Street View images to glean data about the built environment of areas in seven US cities and cross-referenced those findings with census data on the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases.
Their findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that built environment factors can predict 63% of the variation in the risk of CHD from one area to another.
The analysis – carried out across the cities of Cleveland, Fremont, Kansas City, Detroit,...
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