Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 159, Issue -, Pages 212-221Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.08.002
Keywords
Greenness; Asthma; Allergic Rhinitis; Paediatric; NDVI; LiDAR
Funding
- La Trobe University Ph.D. Postgraduate Scholarship
- RFA: Building Healthy Communities top-up scholarship
- National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia
- National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [ID1020238, GNT1055754]
- Centre for Air quality & health Research and evaluation (NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence) top-up scholarship
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Background: The aetiology of allergic respiratory disease in children is not yet fully understood. Environmental factors are believed to play a major part. The amount of green vegetation surrounding the home (residential greenness) has been recently identified as a potentially important exposure Objectives: Our goal was to provide a systematic review and quantitative summary of the evidence regarding the relationship between residential greenness and allergic respiratory diseases in children. Methods: Peer-reviewed literature published prior to 1 March 2017 was systematically searched using nine electronic databases. Meta-analyses were conducted if at least three studies published risk estimates for the same outcome and exposure measures. Results: We included 11 articles across broad outcomes of asthma and allergic rhinitis. Reported effects were inconsistent with varying measures to define residential greenness. Only limited meta-analysis could be conducted, with the pooled odds ratios for asthma (OR 1.01 95%CI 0.93, 1.09; I-2 68.1%) and allergic rhinitis (OR 0.99 95%CI 0.87, 1.12; I-2 72.9%) being significantly heterogeneous. Conclusions: Inconsistencies between the studies were too large to accurately assess the association between residential greenness and allergic respiratory disease. A standardised global measure of greenness which accounts for seasonal variation at a specific relevant buffer size is needed to create a more cohesive body of evidence and for future examination of the effect of residential greenness on allergic respiratory diseases.
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