Prenatal Household Air Pollution Exposure and Childhood Blood Pressure in Rural Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between prenatal household air pollution (HAP) exposure and childhood blood pressure (BP) is unknown.

Objective

Within the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) we examined time-varying associations between a) maternal prenatal and b) first-year-of-life HAP exposure with BP at 4 years of age and, separately, whether a stove intervention delivered prenatally and continued through the first year of life could improve BP at 4 years of age.

Methods

GRAPHS was a cluster-randomized cookstove intervention trial wherein n=1,414 pregnant women were randomized to one of two stove interventions: a) a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove or improved biomass stove, or b) control (open fire cooking). Maternal

SUBMITTER: Daouda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953816 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature