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Clean Cooking Fuels to Improve Health during Pregnancy

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2022)

Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass for Cooking and Effects on Birth Weight

T. F. Clasen et al.

Summary: There was no significant difference in birth weight between infants born to women who used LPG cookstoves and those born to women who used biomass cookstoves.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2022)

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A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana

Darby W. Jack et al.

Summary: Household air pollution from solid fuel combustion for cooking and heating is a major global health issue. A study in rural Ghana aimed to improve child health by providing clean cooking interventions during pregnancy, but found that neither LPG cookstoves nor improved biomass cookstoves led to improvements in birth weight or reduced severe pneumonia risk in the first 12 months of life. The researchers hypothesize that this lack of effect may be due to lower-than-expected reductions in air pollution exposure.

BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH (2021)

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