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Exposure To Household Air Pollution From Biomass-Burning Cookstoves And Hba1c And Diabetic Status Among Honduran Women, S. Rajkumar, M. L. Clark, B. N. Young, Megan L. Benka-Coker, A. M. Bachand, R. D. Brook, T. L. Nelson, J. Volckens, S. J. Reynolds, C. L'Orange, N. Good, K. Koehler, S. Africano, A. B. Osorto Pinel, J. L. Peel

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middle‐income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, such as Type II Diabetes, are increasing. Growing evidence supports a link between ambient air pollution and diabetes, but evidence for household air pollution is limited. This cross‐sectional study of 142 women (72 with traditional stoves and 70 with cleaner‐burning Justa stoves) in rural Honduras evaluated the association of exposure to household air pollution (stove type, 24‐hour average kitchen and personal fine particulate matter [PM2.5] mass and black carbon) …