Impact of cooking with liquefied petroleum gas compared with traditional cooking practices on perinatal and early neonatal mortality: the Poriborton cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) can reduce perinatal mortality in a setting with high reliance on biomass fuels for cooking.

Design

Community-based two-arm parallel cluster randomised controlled trial, in Sherpur, Bangladesh.

Participants

4944 pregnant women were recruited, with 2472 in each group. Eligible women were pregnant between 40 and 120 days, aged 15-49 years, permanent residents and planning to give birth in their cluster of residence.

Intervention

LPG stove and fuel to birth. Controls continued with usual cooking practices.

Main outcome

Primary outcome at the individual level: perinatal mortality.

Secondary outcomes

early neonatal mortality, neonatal mortality, preterm birth and personal exposure to particul

SUBMITTER: Raynes-Greenow C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12911768 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature