Mingwei Liu

Built environment and cardiovascular risk

Samenvatting

This thesis has described the current evidence of the association between the built environment and cardiovascular risk, and has originally investigated this long-term association and its underlying mechanisms. Chapter 1 introduces the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD), determinants of CVD, and gaps in current evidence. Chapter 2 summarizes the evidence on the association between built environment and CVD. Chapter 3 to 6 zoom in specific built environment characteristics and address the identified research gaps, respectively. Chapter 7 discusses several approaches to investigate the interrelationships among built environment attributes in relation to CVD.