Use of candles and risk of cardiovascular and respiratory events in a Danish cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Burning candles at home emit small particles and gases that pollute indoor air. Exposure to fine particles in outdoor air has been convincingly linked to cardiovascular and respiratory events, while the associations with fine and ultrafine particles from candle burning remain unexplored. We examined the association between the use of candles and incident cardiovascular and respiratory events. We collected data on 6757 participants of the Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank cohort recruited in 2009 and followed them up for the first hospital contact for incident cardiovascular and respiratory events until 2018. We investigated an association between the self-reported frequency of candle use in wintertime and cardiovascular and respiratory events, using Cox regression models adjusting for p

SUBMITTER: Loft S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9546142 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature