UofL Green Heart Project: residents' inflammation lower after trees added to neighborhoods | UofL News
The University of Louisville's groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those living outside the planted areas. General inflammation is an important risk indicator for heart disease and other chronic diseases. The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute launched the first-of-its-kind project in 2018 in partnership with The Natu...| UofLNews
