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Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are the leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and have been causally linked with exposure to pollutants from domestic biomass fuels in developing countries. We used longitudinal health data coupled with detailed monitoring and estimation of personal exposure...

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Autores principales: Ezzati, M, Kammen, D M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11401759
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description Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are the leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and have been causally linked with exposure to pollutants from domestic biomass fuels in developing countries. We used longitudinal health data coupled with detailed monitoring and estimation of personal exposure from more than 2 years of field measurements in rural Kenya to estimate the exposure-response relationship for particulates < 10 microm diameter (PM(10)) generated from biomass combustion. Acute respiratory infections and acute lower respiratory infections are concave, increasing functions of average daily exposure to PM(10), with the rate of increase declining for exposures above approximately 1,000-2,000 microg/m(3). This first estimation of the exposure-response relationship for the high-exposure levels characteristic of developing countries has immediate and important consequences for international public health policies, energy and combustion research, and technology transfer efforts that affect more than 2 billion people worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-12403072005-11-08 Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Ezzati, M Kammen, D M Environ Health Perspect Research Article Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are the leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and have been causally linked with exposure to pollutants from domestic biomass fuels in developing countries. We used longitudinal health data coupled with detailed monitoring and estimation of personal exposure from more than 2 years of field measurements in rural Kenya to estimate the exposure-response relationship for particulates < 10 microm diameter (PM(10)) generated from biomass combustion. Acute respiratory infections and acute lower respiratory infections are concave, increasing functions of average daily exposure to PM(10), with the rate of increase declining for exposures above approximately 1,000-2,000 microg/m(3). This first estimation of the exposure-response relationship for the high-exposure levels characteristic of developing countries has immediate and important consequences for international public health policies, energy and combustion research, and technology transfer efforts that affect more than 2 billion people worldwide. 2001-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1240307/ /pubmed/11401759 Text en
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Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title_full Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title_fullStr Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title_full_unstemmed Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title_short Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
title_sort quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11401759
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