Respiratory health status of rural women exposed to liquefied petroleum gas and solid biomass fuel emissions

M Kaur-Sidhu, K Ravindra, S Mor… - Air, Soil and Water …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… Solid biomass fuel users had more prevalence rate of having eye irritation and the occurrence
of frequent blackouts. The occurrence of both these symptoms was found to be highly …

Biofuels and Health Hazards: An Overview

S Banerjee, S Ghosh, GD Bhowmick… - … of Research on Safe …, 2023 - igi-global.com
… Biofuels are natural energy and fuel that we can get from biomass (Ravila& Holm, 1994).
Biofuels are essential for our modern life, which we can get from various agricultural fields, …

Mutagenic and cancer risk estimation of particulate bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the emission of different biomass fuels

PK Verma, D Sah, J Dubey, KM Kumari… - Chemical Research in …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Smoke samples from combustion of different biomass fuels … were detected in the emission
of fuels, while the remaining 5 … PAH concentrations emitted from biomass emissions shows …

Does household use of biomass fuel cause lung cancer? A systematic review and evaluation of the evidence for the GBD 2010 study

N Bruce, M Dherani, R Liu, HD Hosgood, A Sapkota… - Thorax, 2015 - thorax.bmj.com
biomass fuels in the home for cooking and heating, so these findings have important implications
for public health. … . Kerosene: a review of household uses and their hazards in low- and …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure to biological and chemical agents at biomass power plants

S Laitinen, J Laitinen, L Fagernäs, K Korpijärvi… - Biomass and …, 2016 - Elsevier
… know the health and safety issues involved in the biomass supply … Peat, a slowly renewable
biomass fuel, included smaller … addressed as an occupational hazard in biomass-fired power …

A review of PAH exposure from the combustion of biomass fuel and their less surveyed effect on the blood parameters

A Kamal, A Cincinelli, T Martellini, RN Malik - Environmental science and …, 2015 - Springer
Health risks associated with exposure to biomass smoke Inhalation of biomass smoke is
one of the major concerns for public health. Wood smoke resembles the cigarette smoke in …

Respiratory health effects of air pollution: update on biomass smoke and traffic pollution

RJ Laumbach, HM Kipen - Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2012 - Elsevier
… importance of emissions from domestic fires burning biomass fuels, primarily in the less-…
Physicians can help to reduce the risk of adverse respiratory effects of exposure to biomass

Health impact and monetary cost of exposure to particulate matter emitted from biomass burning in large cities

DΑ Sarigiannis, SP Karakitsios… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
… evaluated the results of shifting between biomass and conventional fuel for domestic heating
(… The exponential is used because the original analyses used a proportional hazard, ie, log-…

Hypertensive and toxicological health risk among women exposed to biomass smoke: A rural Indian scenario

D Chakraborty, NK Mondal - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2018 - Elsevier
… In the case of biomass fuel user toxicological risk was higher (5.21) than LPG users (0.69). …
The hazardous quotient for inhalation route calculated for PM 2.5 and it exceeds greater …

[HTML][HTML] How harmful is particulate matter emitted from biomass burning? A Thailand perspective

HJ Johnston, W Mueller, S Steinle, S Vardoulakis… - Current Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
… whether the health effects of traffic and biomass burning … traffic or biomass burning derived
PM is most hazardous. Also… led to an increase in burning of biomass fuels globally [11]. …