Household air pollution from wood-burning cookstoves and C-reactive protein among women in rural Honduras.

ABSTRACT: Household air pollution from solid fuel combustion was estimated to cause 2.31 million deaths worldwide in 2019; cardiovascular disease is a substantial contributor to the global burden. We evaluated the cross-sectional association between household air pollution (24-h gravimetric kitchen and personal particulate matter (PM_2.5) and black carbon (BC)) and C-reactive protein (CRP) measured in dried blood spots among 107 women in rural Honduras using wood-burning traditional or Justa (an engineered combustion chamber) stoves. A suite of 6 additional markers of systemic injury and inflammation were considered in secondary analyses. We adjusted for potential confounders and assessed effect modification of several cardiovascular-disease risk factors. The median (25th, 75th percentiles

SUBMITTER: Benka-Coker ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8934269 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature