Cohort profile: Bangladesh Cook Stove Pregnancy Cohort Study (CSPCS).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Cook Stove Pregnancy Cohort Study (CSPCS) was designed to assess the effects of biomass fuel use on household air pollution (HAP) as well as the effects of HAP (fine particulate matter, PM_2.5) on birth outcomes and acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) among infants in Bangladesh.

Participants

We recruited 903 women within 18 weeks of pregnancy from rural and semiurban areas of Bangladesh between November 2016 and March 2017. All women and their infants (N=831 pairs) were followed until 12 months after delivery and a subset have undergone respiratory and gut microbiota analysis.

Methods

Questionnaires were administered to collect detailed sociodemographic, medical, nutritional and behavioural information on the mother-child dyads. Anthropomet

SUBMITTER: Jabin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10174037 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature