Urban neighbourhood environments, cardiometabolic health and cognitive function : A national cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older adults in Australia
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Cerin, Ester, Barnett, Anthony, Shaw, Jonathan E., Martino, Erika, Knibbs, Luke D., Tham, Rachel, Wheeler, Amanda J. and Anstey, Kaarin J.. (2022). Urban neighbourhood environments, cardiometabolic health and cognitive function : A national cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older adults in Australia. Toxics. 10(1), p. Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics10010023
Authors | Cerin, Ester, Barnett, Anthony, Shaw, Jonathan E., Martino, Erika, Knibbs, Luke D., Tham, Rachel, Wheeler, Amanda J. and Anstey, Kaarin J. |
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Abstract | Population ageing and urbanisation are global phenomena that call for an understanding of the impacts of features of the urban environment on older adults’ cognitive function. Because neighbourhood characteristics that can potentially have opposite effects on cognitive function are interdependent, they need to be considered in conjunction. Using data from an Australian national sample of 4141 adult urban dwellers, we examined the extent to which the associations of interrelated built and natural environment features and ambient air pollution with cognitive function are explained by cardiometabolic risk factors relevant to cognitive health. All examined environmental features were directly and/or indirectly related to cognitive function via other environmental features and/or cardiometabolic risk factors. Findings suggest that dense, interconnected urban environments with access to parks, blue spaces and low levels of air pollution may benefit cognitive health through cardiometabolic risk factors and other mechanisms not captured in this study. This study also highlights the need for a particularly fine-grained characterisation of the built environment in research on cognitive function, which would enable the differentiation of the positive effects of destination-rich neighbourhoods on cognition via participation in cognition-enhancing activities from the negative effects of air pollutants typically present in dense, destination-rich urban areas. |
Keywords | walkability; greenspace; blue space; cardiometabolic health; cognitive function |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Toxics |
Journal citation | 10 (1), p. Article 23 |
Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI AG) |
ISSN | 2305-6304 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics10010023 |
PubMed ID | 35051065 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85123458030 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC8779212 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 1-16 |
Funder | Australian Catholic University (ACU) |
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) | |
Australian Research Council (ARC) | |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 07 Jan 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 05 Jan 0202 |
Deposited | 15 Oct 2023 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | ACURF18 |
1173952 | |
FL190100011 |
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