Researchers have used Google Street View to study hundreds of elements of the built environment, including buildings, green spaces, pavements and roads, and how these elements relate to each other and influence coronary artery disease in people living in these neighborhoods.
Mar 27 2024European Society of Cardiology
Researchers say that using Google Street View can help provide an overview of physical environmental risk factors in the built and natural environments that could help not only in understanding risk factors in these environments, but ultimately help towards building or adapting towns and cities to make them healthier places to live.
Prof. Sanjay Rajagopalan from University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA Prof. Al-Kindi added: "We also used an approach called attention mapping, which highlights some of the important regions in the image, to provide a semi-qualitative interpretation of some of the thousands of features that may be important in coronary heart disease. For instance, features like green space and walkable roads were associated with lower risk, while other features, such as poorly paved roads, were associated with higher risk. However, these findings need further investigation.
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