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Elevated blood pressure and household solid fuel use in premenopausal women: Analysis of 12 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 10 countries

Creators

  • 1. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  • 2. School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  • 3. MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health and WHO Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom)
  • 4. Institute for Health and Social Policy and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC (Canada)
  • 5. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
  • 6. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (United States)
  • 7. The School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (United States)

Description

Highlights: • We obtained data from 12 standard DHS conducted in ten countries. • Data were nationally representative and internationally comparable. • We assessed the link between household cooking fuel and BP in women aged 15-49 years. • Dirty fuel use was linked with raised BP and hypertension, mainly in rural women. • Using cleaner fuels may reduce hypertension related morbidity and mortality in L/MIC. Approximately three billion people are exposed to household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel cookstoves. Studies from single settings have linked HAP with elevated blood pressure (BP), but no evidence exists from multi-country analyses.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.026

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.026;
PII
S001393511731366X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Environmental Research
Journal Volume
160
Journal Page Range
p. 499-505
ISSN
0013-9351
CODEN
ENVRAL

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
53017200
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
AIR POLLUTION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; HOUSEHOLDS; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; SOLID FUELS; WOMEN
Descriptors DEC
ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASES; FEMALES; FUELS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; POLLUTION; PRIMATES; PROCESSING; SYMPTOMS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VERTEBRATES

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