Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-13-2018
Department 1
Health Sciences
Abstract
Household air pollution is estimated to be responsible for nearly three million premature deaths annually. Measuring fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) may improve the limited understanding of the association of household air pollution and airway inflammation. We evaluated the cross-sectional association of FeNO with exposure to household air pollution (24-h average kitchen and personal fine particulate matter and black carbon; stove type) among 139 women in rural Honduras using traditional stoves or cleaner-burning Justastoves. We additionally evaluated interaction by age. Results were generally consistent with a null association; we did not observe a consistent pattern for interaction by age. Evidence from ambient and household air pollution regarding FeNO is inconsistent, and may be attributable to differing study populations, exposures, and FeNO measurement procedures (e.g., the flow rate used to measure FeNO).
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DOI
10.3390/ijerph15112544
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Recommended Citation
Benka-Coker, Megan L, et al. "Exposure to Household Air Pollution from Biomass Cookstoves and Levels of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) among Honduran Women." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 11 (2018): 2544-2560.
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This article was originally published on the publisher's website: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/11/2544