Irregularly shaped parks associated with lower mortality risk

Updated:5 years, 11 months ago

New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): While the discovery might sound strange, but the shape of community parks is linked to the mortality risk of residents living around them.Some community parks are square, a reflection of the city block they're located at -- and a new study has found that irregularly shaped parks reduce the mortality risk of residents living near them.They found that residents in census tracts with more connected, aggregated and complex-shaped green spaces had a lower mortality risk.Researchers explained that the complexity in the shape of the park was positively associated with lower mortality risk.

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