Indoor air pollution and health: bridging perspectives from developing and developed countries

A Pillarisetti, W Ye, S Chowdhury - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Much of the global population spends most of their time indoors; however, air pollution
measurement, a proxy of exposure, occurs primarily outdoors. This fundamental disconnect …

Health outcomes in children associated with prenatal and early-life exposures to air pollution: a narrative review

R Gheissari, J Liao, E Garcia, N Pavlovic, FD Gilliland… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis links
adverse fetal exposures with developmental mal-adaptations and morbidity later in life …

Effects of Cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass on Stunting in Infants

W Checkley, LM Thompson, SS Sinharoy… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Household air pollution is associated with stunted growth in infants. Whether
the replacement of biomass fuel (eg, wood, dung, or agricultural crop waste) with liquefied …

Prenatal ambient air pollution exposure and child weight trajectories from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy to 2 years of age: a cohort study

N Ji, M Johnson, SP Eckel, WJ Gauderman, TA Chavez… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Prenatal air pollution exposure may increase risk for childhood obesity.
However, few studies have evaluated in utero growth measures and infant weight …

Early-life air pollution and green space exposures as determinants of stunting among children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa

PM Amegbor, CE Sabel, LH Mortensen… - Journal of Exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Childhood malnutrition is a major public health issue in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) and 61.4 million children under the age of five years in the region are stunted …

[HTML][HTML] PM2. 5 constituents associated with childhood obesity and larger BMI growth trajectory: A 14-year longitudinal study

Y Wang, W Li, S Chen, J Zhang, X Liu, J Jiang… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The association of specific PM 2.5 chemical constituents with childhood
overweight or obesity (OWOB) remain unclear. Furthermore, the long-term impacts of PM 2.5 …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying sensitive windows of prenatal household air pollution on birth weight and infant pneumonia risk to inform future interventions

S Kaali, DW Jack, MN Mujtaba, SN Chillrud… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Prenatal household air pollution impairs birth weight and increases pneumonia
risk however time-varying associations have not been elucidated and may have implications …

[HTML][HTML] Biomass smoke exposure and somatic growth among children: the RESPIRE and CRECER prospective cohort studies in rural Guatemala

W Lu, A Jenny, C Romero, A Diaz-Artiga, A Kuster… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Cooking-related biomass smoke is a major source of household air pollution
(HAP) and an important health hazard. Prior studies identified associations between HAP …

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 …

Indoor Air Sources of Outdoor Air Pollution: Health Consequences, Policy, and Recommendations: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report

NJ Nassikas, MC McCormack, G Ewart… - Annals of the …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Indoor sources of air pollution worsen indoor and outdoor air quality. Thus, identifying and
reducing indoor pollutant sources would decrease both indoor and outdoor air pollution …