Exposure to household air pollution from wood combustion and association with respiratory symptoms and lung function in nonsmoking women: Results from the RESPIRE trial, Guatemala

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 285-292

  Pope, Daniel ^a   Diaz, Esperanza ^b   Smith Sivertsen, Tone ^b   Lie, Rolv T ^b   Bakke, Per ^c   Balmes, John R ^d,e   Smith, Kirk R ^e   Bruce, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care ^*  (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CARBON MONOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; METEOROLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; COOKING; DRUG EFFECTS; FIRE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKE; WOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CARBON MONOXIDE; COOKING; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKE; WOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961292115     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408200     Document Type: Article

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