Open AccessAssociation between ambient and household air pollution with carotid intima-media thickness in peri-urban South India: CHAI-Project
Author(s) -
Otávio T. Ranzani,
Carles Milà,
Margaux Sanchez,
Santhi Bhogadi,
Bharati Kulkarni,
Kalpana Balakrishnan,
Sankar Sambandam,
Jordi Sunyer,
Julian Marshall,
Sanjay Kinra,
Cathryn Tonne
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyz208
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , confounding , environmental health , particulates , interquartile range , cohort , aerodynamic diameter , air pollution , cohort study , demography , ecology , biology , chemistry , organic chemistry , sociology
Evidence linking ambient air pollution with atherosclerosis is lacking from low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, evidence regarding the association between household air pollution and atherosclerosis is limited. We evaluated the association between ambient fine particulate matter [particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)] and biomass fuel use on carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a surrogate of atherosclerosis, in India.