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 …

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 …

Invited Perspective: Longitudinal Follow-up of a Household Air Pollution Trial in a Birth Cohort Yields an Impactful Finding

JR Balmes - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
1. GBD 2019 Risk Factors Collaborators. 2020. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204
countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal household air pollutant exposure is associated with reduced size and gestational age at birth among a cohort of Ghanaian infants

AK Quinn, IA Adjei, K Ayuurebobi, O Agyei… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Low birth weight and prematurity are important risk factors for death and
disability, and may be affected by prenatal exposure to household air pollution (HAP) …

Cooking fuel choices and garbage burning practices as determinants of birth weight: a cross-sectional study in Accra, Ghana

AK Amegah, JJK Jaakkola, R Quansah, GK Norgbe… - Environmental …, 2012 - Springer
Background Effect of indoor air pollution (IAP) on birth weight remains largely unexplored
but yet purported as the most important environmental exposure for pregnant women in …

Ghana randomized air pollution and health study (GRAPHS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

DW Jack, KP Asante, BJ Wylie, SN Chillrud, RM Whyatt… - Trials, 2015 - Springer
Background Household air pollution exposure is a major health risk, but validated
interventions remain elusive. Methods/Design The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and …

Prenatal household air pollution exposure, cord blood mononuclear cell telomere length and age four blood pressure: evidence from a Ghanaian pregnancy cohort

S Kaali, D Jack, J Opoku-Mensah, T Bloomquist… - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Associations between prenatal household air pollution exposure (HAP), newborn telomere
length and early childhood blood pressure are unknown. Methods: Pregnant women were …

The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS): A cluster randomized trial of Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and efficient biomass cookstoves …

K Asante, B Wylie, S Chillrud… - Environmental …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background/Aim: Household air pollution from inefficient biomass cookstoves causes
millions of avoidable deaths annually. We urgently need reliable information on potential …

[HTML][HTML] Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and gestational blood pressure among women using solid cooking fuels in rural Tamil …

W Ye, G Thangavel, A Pillarisetti, K Steenland… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial is an
ongoing multi-center randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of a liquified …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of in utero exposure to household air pollution on child health: evidence from Ghana

K Adjei-Mantey, K Takeuchi - Health Policy OPEN, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of in utero exposure to household air pollution on child
health. By using a pseudo panel data compiled from three rounds of two separate …