Study shows reduced inflammation in residents after adding trees to their neighborhoods

A residential area showing trees and shrubs added for the Green Heart Louisville Project. Credit: Mike Wilkinson for The Nature Conservancy The University of Louisville’s 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 findings were presented by Daniel Riggs, UofL assistant professor of environmental medicine, at the 36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Read More