Association of solid fuel use with risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in rural China

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 13, 2018, Pages 1351-1361

  Yu, Kuai ^a,b   Qiu, Gaokun ^a,b   Chan, Ka Hung ^c   Lam, Kin Bong Hubert ^c   Kurmi, Om P ^c   Bennett, Derrick A ^c   Yu, Canqing ^d   Pan, An ^a,b   Lv, Jun ^d   Guo, Yu ^e   Bian, Zheng ^e   Yang, Ling ^c   Chen, Yiping ^c   Hu, Frank B ^f   Chen, Zhengming ^c   Li, Liming ^d,e   Wu, Tangchun ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL; COAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEATING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT; SOLID FUEL USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MORTALITY; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; COAL; COOKING; HEATING; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOOD;

EID: 85044936225     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.2151     Document Type: Article

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