Liquefied petroleum gas or biomass for cooking and effects on birth weight

TF Clasen, HH Chang, LM Thompson… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Exposure during pregnancy to household air pollution caused by the burning of
solid biomass fuel is associated with adverse health outcomes, including low birth weight …

Impact of indoor environment on children's pulmonary health

J Murphy, R Tharumakunarajah… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction A child's living environment has a significant impact on their respiratory health,
with exposure to poor indoor air quality (IAQ) contributing to potentially lifelong respiratory …

Carbon Monoxide as a Potential Therapeutic Agent: A Molecular Analysis of Its Safety Profiles

S Bansal, D Liu, Q Mao, N Bauer… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Carbon monoxide (CO) is endogenously produced in mammals, with blood concentrations
in the high micromolar range in the hemoglobin-bound form. Further, CO has shown …

Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties

L Xu, K Feng, S Shao - Global Environmental Change, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research on the detrimental effects of air pollution on health, limited focus
has been directed toward the impact of air pollution on child growth. Utilizing comprehensive …

Cooking with liquefied petroleum gas or biomass and fetal growth outcomes: a multi-country randomised controlled trial

W Checkley, LM Thompson, S Hossen… - The Lancet Global …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Household air pollution might lead to fetal growth restriction during pregnancy.
We aimed to investigate whether a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) intervention to reduce …

Factors Determining Black Carbon Exposures among Pregnant Women Enrolled in the HAPIN Trial

DA Campbell, M Johnson, R Piedrahita… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Residential biomass burning is an important source of black carbon (BC) exposure among
rural communities in low-and middle-income countries. We collected 7165 personal BC …

High ambient air pollution erodes the benefits of using clean cooking fuel in preventing low birth weight in India

R Parchure, E Chaudhary, S Darak… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A large fraction of the population in rural India continues to use biomass fuel for cooking and
heating. In-utero exposure to the resulting household air pollution (HAP), is known to …

Post-birth exposure contrasts for children during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network randomized controlled trial

A Pillarisetti, W Ye, K Balakrishnan, G Rosa… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Exposure to household air pollution is a leading cause of ill-health globally. The Household
Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact …

Gestational exposure to PM2. 5 disrupts fetal development by suppressing placental trophoblast syncytialization via progranulin/mTOR signaling

Y Wang, Z Chen, J Li, T Wan, R Hu, L Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent epidemiological and animal studies have indicated that ambient fine particulate
matter (PM 2.5) exposure during pregnancy is closely associated with intrauterine growth …

The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China

C Chen, Z Wen - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For urban agglomerations that contain multiple interconnected cities, carbon pollution
mitigation is particularly challenging due to the complex pollution transfer among …