Longitudinal associations of air pollution and green space with cardiometabolic risk factor clustering among children in the Netherlands

Background: This study examines longitudinal associations of air pollution and green space with cardiometabolic risk among children in the Netherlands. Methods: Three Dutch prospective cohorts with a total of 13,822 participants aged 5 to 17 years were included: (1) the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development (ABCD) study from Amsterdam (n = 2,547), (2) the Generation R study from Rotterdam (n = 5,431), and (3) the Lifelines study from northern Netherlands (n = 5,844). Air pollution (PM 2.5 , PM 10 , NO 2 , and elemental carbon (EC)) and green space exposures (density in multiple Euclide... Mehr ...