Researchers have analysed green spaces on multiple outcomes in more than 35,000 children from 8 countries.
- Living in greener areas during childhood was associated with better lung function.
- Residential surrounding green spaces in childhood, not pregnancy, was associated with improved lung function, with a stronger association observed in females. This association remained robust after multiple testing correction and did not change notably after adjusting for ambient air pollution.
- Associations with other respiratory outcomes and selected cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes remain inconclusive.
Read the report (August 2024) : Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes: An individual-participant data meta-analysis of >35.000 European children.
A Fernandes et al. – Environment International.
