Objectives Almost half of the world's population uses solid fuel for cooking, exposing women
to high levels of particulate pollution in indoor air. The risk of acute coronary syndrome
(ACS) was assessed among rural women, according to their use of solid fuel. Study design
Matched case control study. Methods Data were collected at a public tertiary care hospital in
a rural district of Pakistan. Seventy-three women with ACS were compared with controls,
individually matched for sex and age (±5 years), who were admitted to hospital for other …