Living Near Greener Spaces is Associated with Lower Risk of Diabetes-Related Mortality in Brussels, Belgium: a 13-Year Mortality Follow-up Study

Methodology Statistical analyses FIRST OBJECTIVE: Association between the two indicators of exposure to residential UGS (surrounding and perceived neighbourhood greenness) and each outcome of diabetes-related mortality (both diabetes as the original cause of death and diabetes as any cause of death) • Cox proportional hazards models using age as the underlying time scale. [...] Stepwise adjustment of the associations (HR) and confidence intervals (95%CI) between IQR increments of surrounding and perceived neighborhood greenness and diabetes-related mortality (both as the original cause of death and as any cause of death). [...] Associations (HR) and confidence intervals (95%CI) of the association between IQR increments of surrounding greenness and diabetes as the original cause of death, by quartiles of neighbourhood SEP (% of unemployment in the statistical area). [...] Associations (HR) and confidence intervals (95%CI) of the association between IQR increments of perceived neighbourhood greenness and diabetes as the original cause of death, by gender. [...] Associations (HR) and confidence intervals (95%CI) of the association between IQR increments of surrounding and perceived neighbourhood greenness and diabetes as any cause of death, by gender.