Prenatal Household Air Pollution Exposure and Childhood Blood Pressure in Rural Ghana
Misbath Daouda, Seyram Kaali, Emma Spring, Mohammed Mujtaba, Darby Jack, Rebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh Prah, Elena Colicino, Theresa Tawiah, Chris Gennings, Musah Osei, Teresa Janević, Steven N. Chillrud, Oscar Agyei, Carlos Gould, Alison Lee, Kwaku Poku Asante
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The association between prenatal household air pollution (HAP) exposure and childhood blood pressure (BP) is unknown. OBJECTIVE: ) first-year-of-life HAP exposure with BP at 4 years of age and, separately, whether a stove intervention delivered prenatally and continued through the first year of life could improve BP at 4 years of age. METHODS: -scores. Sex-specific effects were considered. RESULTS: -scores. DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that prenatal and first-year-of-life HAP exposure are associated with child BP and support the need for reductions in exposure to HAP, with interventions such as cleaner cooking beginning in pregnancy. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP13225.