SynthesisBritish medical bulletin2016
Coronary heart disease and household air pollution from use of solid fuel: a systematic review.
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- Pooled it
- Effects of a household air pollution intervention using liquefied petroleum gas stoves, continuous fuel distribution and behavioural messaging on dietary and sodium intake of adult women in Puno, Peru: a randomised controlled trial.Public health nutrition · 2023Trial
- Indoor Air Pollution and Impaired Cardiac Autonomic Function in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023Trial
- Ischemic heart disease burden and healthcare system readiness across sub-Saharan Africa.Nature cardiovascular research · 2026Review
- Dietary diversity modifies the association between household solid fuel use and sleep health in older adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Medical care or clean energy? The impact of medical insurance on rural households' use of clean cooking energy.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Association between with household solid fuel use and successful aging among older people in China: a cross-sectional and perspective study from CHARLS.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Built Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases - Insights from a Global Review.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025Review
- Assessing the association between household air pollution exposure and child heath in Mongolia: a birth-cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association of a cleaner-burning stove with blood pressure in adults in rural Malawi.PloS one · 2025Article
- Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Peripheral Artery Disease in Rural South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the HAALSI Cohort.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Housing conditions, cooking fuels, and health-related quality of life among rural middle-aged and elderly in northwest China: A ten-year balanced panel study.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Associations between Household Solid Fuel Use, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Health in China: A Cohort Study from 2011 to 2018.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Article
- Household Air Pollution and Blood Pressure, Vascular Damage, and Subclinical Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease in Older Chinese Adults.American journal of hypertension · 2022Article
- Role of environmental toxicants in the development of hypertensive and cardiovascular diseases.Toxicology reports · 2022Review
- The effect of clean cooking interventions on mother and child personal exposure to air pollution: results from the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS).Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Article
- COVID-19 impacts on household energy & food security in a Kenyan informal settlement: The need for integrated approaches to the SDGs.Renewable & sustainable energy reviews · 2021Article
- Investigating Cooking Activity Patterns and Perceptions of Air Quality Interventions among Women in Urban Rwanda.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Long-term exposure to indoor air pollution and risk of tuberculosis.Indoor air · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence is emerging that indoor air pollution (IAP) from use of solid fuels for cooking and heating may be an important risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). SOURCES OF DATA: We searched the Ovid Medline, Embase Classic, Embase and Web of Science databases from inception through to June 12, 2015, to identify reports of primary epidemiological research concerning the relationship of CHD to IAP from solid fuel, the likely magnitude of any increase in risk, and potential pathogenic mechanisms. AREAS OF AGREEMENT: The current balance of epidemiological evidence points to an increased risk of CHD from IAP as a consequence of using solid, and especially biomass, fuels for cooking and heating. Relative risks from long-term exposure could be 2- to 4-fold. AREAS OF CONTROVERSY: The evidence base is still limited, and although an association of CHD with such IAP from solid fuel is consistent with the known hazards from smoking, environmental tobacco smoke and ambient air pollution, and supported by evidence of effects on inflammatory processes, atherosclerosis and blood pressure, it requires confirmation by larger and more robust studies. GROWING POINTS: The completion of two relatively small case-control studies on CHD and IAP from use of biomass fuel demonstrates the feasibility of such research, and is an encouragement to further, larger studies using similar methods. AREAS TIMELY FOR DEVELOPING RESEARCH: The need for such research is particularly pressing because the incidence of CHD in developing countries is rising, and IAP may interact synergistically with the risk factors that are driving that increase. Furthermore, relatively cheap methods are available to reduce IAP from use of solid fuels, and there are indications from intervention studies that these may impact beneficially on CHD as well as other diseases caused by such pollution.
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