Exposure to Household Air Pollution from Biomass Cookstoves and Levels of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) among Honduran Women

Megan L. Benka-Coker, Maggie L. Clark, Sarah Rajkumar, Bonnie N. Young, Annette M. Bachand, John R. Balmes, Robert Brook, Tracy L. Nelson, John Volckens, Steve J. Reynolds, Ander Wilson, Christian L’Orange, Nicholas Good, Casey Quinn, Kirsten Koehler, Sebastian Africano, Anibal Osorto Pinel and Jennifer L. Peel
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Megan L. Benka-Coker: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Maggie L. Clark: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Sarah Rajkumar: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Bonnie N. Young: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Annette M. Bachand: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
John R. Balmes: Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Robert Brook: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Tracy L. Nelson: Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
John Volckens: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Steve J. Reynolds: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Ander Wilson: Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Christian L’Orange: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Nicholas Good: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Casey Quinn: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Kirsten Koehler: Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Sebastian Africano: Trees, Water & People, Fort Collins, CO 80524, USA
Anibal Osorto Pinel: Trees, Water & People, Fort Collins, CO 80524, USA
Jennifer L. Peel: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-16

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 Justa stoves. 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).

Keywords: fractional exhaled nitric oxide; household air pollution; particulate matter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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