Household air pollution, chronic respiratory disease and pneumonia in Malawian adults: A case-control study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Four million people die each year from diseases caused by exposure to household air pollution. There is an association between exposure to household air pollution and pneumonia in children (half a million attributable deaths a year); however, whether this is true in adults is unknown. We conducted a case-control study in urban Malawi to examine the association between exposure to household air pollution and pneumonia in adults. Methods: Hospitalized patients with radiologically confirmed pneumonia (cases) and healthy community controls underwent 48 hours of ambulatory and household particulate matter (µg/m ³) and carbon monoxide (ppm) exposure monitoring. Multivariate logistic regression, stratified by HIV status, explored associations between these and

SUBMITTER: Jary HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5730861 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature