Geospatial Analysis of Neighborhood Environmental Stress in Relation to Biological Markers of Cardiovascular Health and Health Behaviors in Women: Protocol for a Pilot Study

Kosuke Tamura   ¹ , PhD ;   Kaveri Curlin   ¹ , BS ;   Sam J Neally   ¹ , BA ;   Nithya P Vijayakumar   ¹ , MD ;   Valerie M Mitchell   ¹ , BA ;   Billy S Collins   ¹ , DHS ;   Cristhian Gutierrez-Huerta   ¹ , BS ;   James F Troendle   ² , PhD ;   Yvonne Baumer   ¹ , PhD ;   Foster Osei Baah   ¹ , PhD ;   Briana S Turner   ¹ , BA ;   Veronica Gray   ¹ , BS ;   Brian A Tirado   ¹ , BS ;   Erika Ortiz-Chaparro   ¹ , BSc ;   David Berrigan   ³ , MPH, PhD ;   Nehal N Mehta   ⁴ , MSCE, MD ;   Viola Vaccarino   ^{5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Shannon N Zenk   ⁷ , MPH, PhD, FAAN ;   Tiffany M Powell-Wiley   ^{1, 8} , MPH, MD

¹ Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory, Cardiovascular Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

² Office of Biostatistics Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

³ Health Behaviors Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Shady Grove, MD, United States

⁴ Section of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases, Cardiovascular Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁶ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁷ National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

⁸ Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States