Indoor air pollution and health: bridging perspectives from developing and developed countries

A Pillarisetti, W Ye, S Chowdhury - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Much of the global population spends most of their time indoors; however, air pollution
measurement, a proxy of exposure, occurs primarily outdoors. This fundamental disconnect …

[HTML][HTML] Adverse birth outcomes associated with household air pollution from unclean cooking fuels in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

A Younger, A Alkon, K Harknett, RJ Louis… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Approximately 3.8 billion people in low-and middle-income countries use unclean fuels as a
source of primary cooking fuel as well as for heating. For pregnant women, the toxic …

Exposure–response relationships for personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2· 5), carbon monoxide, and black carbon and birthweight: an observational …

K Balakrishnan, K Steenland, T Clasen… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel use is associated with adverse
birth outcomes, but data for exposure–response relationships are scarce. We examined …

Prenatal and postnatal household air pollution exposure and infant growth trajectories: evidence from a rural Ghanaian pregnancy cohort

E Boamah-Kaali, DW Jack… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The exposure–response association between prenatal and postnatal
household air pollution (HAP) and infant growth trajectories is unknown. Objectives: To …

Effects of Gestational Arsenic Exposures on Placental and Fetal Development in Mice: The Role of Cyr61

YP Song, JW Lv, ZC Zhang, QH Qian… - Environmental …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Several epidemiological investigations demonstrated that maternal arsenic
(As) exposure elevated risk of fetal growth restriction (FGR), but the mechanism remains …

Effectiveness of interventions to reduce household air pollution from solid biomass fuels and improve maternal and child health outcomes in low-and middle-income …

KE Woolley, E Dickinson-Craig, SE Bartington… - Systematic …, 2021 - Springer
Background A variety of public health interventions have been undertaken in low-and
middle-income countries (LMICs) to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying sensitive windows of prenatal household air pollution on birth weight and infant pneumonia risk to inform future interventions

S Kaali, DW Jack, MN Mujtaba, SN Chillrud… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Prenatal household air pollution impairs birth weight and increases pneumonia
risk however time-varying associations have not been elucidated and may have implications …

Prenatal household air pollution exposure and childhood blood pressure in rural Ghana

M Daouda, S Kaali, E Spring, MN Mujtaba… - Environmental …, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The association between prenatal household air pollution (HAP) exposure and
childhood blood pressure (BP) is unknown. Objective: Within the Ghana Randomized Air …

Effectiveness of interventions to reduce household air pollution from solid biomass fuels and improve maternal and child health outcomes in low‐and middle‐income …

KE Woolley, E Dickinson‐Craig, HL Lawson… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interventions to reduce household air pollution (HAP) are key to reducing associated
morbidity and mortality in low‐and middle‐income countries (LMICs); especially among …

Poor early childhood growth is associated with impaired lung function: evidence from a Ghanaian pregnancy cohort

S Kaali, DW Jack, RKD Prah, SN Chillrud… - Pediatric …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives Nearly 40% of African children under 5 are stunted. We leveraged the
Ghana randomized air pollution and health study (GRAPHS) cohort to examine whether …