Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32076737›Full record

ArticleInternational journal of public health2020

Acute coronary syndrome and use of biomass fuel among women in rural Pakistan: a case-control study.

Zafar Fatmi, Ambreen Sahito, Georgia Ntani, David Coggon

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in International journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zafar FatmiDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. zafar.fatmi@aku.edu.
Ambreen SahitoDepartment of Community Medicine, People's University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
Georgia NtaniMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
David CoggonMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThree billion people use biomass fuel for cooking and heating globally. We assessed the association between acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and use of biomass fuel for cooking.

methodsWe conducted a case-control study among women living in defined areas that were served by two tertiary care hospitals. A total of 364 women admitted to cardiac care units with ACS were compared with 727 controls, individually matched for age, who were inpatients at the same hospitals with a miscellany of diagnoses. Exposure to biomass fuel and other risk factors was ascertained through a questionnaire and assessed by conditional logistic regression.

resultsAfter adjustment, risk of ACS was elevated in women who had ever used biomass for cooking. In comparison with never users, the odds ratio for those who currently cooked with biomass was 4.8 (95% confidence interval 1.7, 13.8). However, among those who had ever used biomass, there was no decline in risk with time since last exposure.

conclusionsThe study found increased risk of ACS from use of biomass for cooking. However, full benefits from interventions may not accrue in short term.

Indexed as

Air Pollution, IndoorBiomassCookingRural PopulationAcute Coronary SyndromeAdultCase-Control StudiesFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicLogistic ModelsMiddle AgedOdds RatioPakistanQualitative ResearchRegression AnalysisAcute coronary syndromeBiomass fuelCase–control studyPakistanWomen

Identifiers

PMID32076737

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.