Inefficient cooking and heating with solid fuels in poorly ventilated homes are a major source
of exposure to indoor air pollution in developing countries. Household air pollution from …

Mounting evidence suggests that air pollution contributes to the large global burden of
respiratory and allergic diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

Despite a gradual decline in smoking rates over time, exposure to secondhand smoke
(SHS) continues to cause harm to nonsmokers, who are disproportionately children and …

Background Numerous studies with varying associations between domestic use of solid
biomass fuels (wood, dung, crop residue, charcoal) and respiratory diseases have been …

BACKGROUND The relation of parental smoking to wheezing and asthma occurring after
the first year of life was assessed by a systematic quantitative review of case-control and …

Burning mosquito coils indoors generates smoke that can control mosquitoes effectively.
This practice is currently used in numerous households in Asia, Africa, and South America …

Background: Studies of exposure to pets and risk of asthma have yielded conflicting results.
Objectives: We performed a systematic review to synthesize the evidence of the effect of …

Background: Exposure to pets has been implicated as a risk factor for asthma. However, this
relation has been difficult to assess in individual studies because of the large potential of …

Background Many studies report that damp housing conditions are associated with
respiratory symptoms. Less is known about mechanisms and possible effect modifiers …

Objectives. Increasing prevalence of asthma in developing countries has been a significant
challenge for public health in recent decades. A number of studies have suggested that …