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Google Street View reveals how built environment correlates with risk of cardiovascular disease (medicalxpress.com)

submitted 7 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/publichealth@mander.xyz

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[–] ranting_sandfish@mander.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

Here's a link to the actual paper, free to read. Notably, the paper starts with the assumption that other studies have already identified a link between environmental factors and heart disease. The focus is on how useful it is to collect that data through street view analysis as opposed to say sending someone out to survey a neighborhood. Also if image analysis can identify interesting environmental factors that researchers may not have identified previously. I can't comment on their statistics, but they at least claim to be looking for the environmental affect by accounting for age, sex, race, income, and education.