Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass Cooking and Severe Infant Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to household air pollution is a risk factor for severe pneumonia. The effect of replacing biomass cookstoves with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookstoves on the incidence of severe infant pneumonia is uncertain.

Methods

We conducted a randomized, controlled trial involving pregnant women 18 to 34 years of age and between 9 to less than 20 weeks' gestation in India, Guatemala, Peru, and Rwanda from May 2018 through September 2021. The women were assigned to cook with unvented LPG stoves and fuel (intervention group) or to continue cooking with biomass fuel (control group). In each trial group, we monitored adherence to the use of the assigned cookstove and measured 24-hour personal exposure to fine particulate matter (particles with an aerodynamic diamete

SUBMITTER: McCollum ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10768798 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature