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Neighbourhood built environment and cardiovascular disease: knowledge and future directions

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Awareness of the effect of the neighbourhood built environment on cardiovascular diseases is growing. In this Comment, we identify major conceptual, methodological and policy-relevant issues in research related to the built environment and describe potential future directions to improve the scientific rigour of research in this field.

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Fig. 1: Simplified relationships between the neighbourhood built environment and CVD.

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G.R.M. is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundations Scheme Grant (FDN-154331). K.O. is supported by the MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2015–2019, from the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (S1511017).

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  1. Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari & Koichiro Oka

  2. Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Gavin R. McCormack

  3. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Tomoki Nakaya

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Koohsari, M.J., McCormack, G.R., Nakaya, T. et al. Neighbourhood built environment and cardiovascular disease: knowledge and future directions. Nat Rev Cardiol 17, 261–263 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-020-0343-6

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