Prenatal and Postnatal Household Air Pollution Exposures and Pneumonia Risk: Evidence From the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nearly 40% of the world's population is exposed daily to household air pollution. The relative impact of prenatal and postnatal household air pollution exposure on early childhood pneumonia, a leading cause of mortality, is unknown.

Research question

Are prenatal or postnatal household air pollution, or both, associated with pneumonia risk in the first year of life?

Study design and methods

The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study enrolled 1,414 nonsmoking, pregnant women before 24 weeks' gestation with prospective follow-up to the child's age of 1 year. We measured 72-h personal household air pollution exposures, indexed by carbon monoxide (CO), four times prenatally and three times postnatally. Weekly fieldworker surveillance identified ill-app

SUBMITTER: Kinney PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628168 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature