Study participants were evenly distributed by distance to green spaces according to age, marital
status, maternal stress, education, smoking, ethnicity, and other variables, but not for parity.
The proportion of women with optimal blood pressure tended to be higher in the area nearest to the
park (26.3%) than in the farthest area (20.9%), while the proportion of women with high-normal blood
pressure tended to be higher in the area farthest to the park than in the nearest to the park area
(12.9% and 8.9%, respectively). Overweight and maternal stress tended to increase with increasing
distance between the place of residence and the nearest city park.