Traditional cooking practices and preferences for stove features among women in rural Senegal: Informing improved cookstove design and interventions.

Nearly half the world's population burns solid fuel for cooking, heating, and lighting. The incomplete combustion of these fuels is associated with detrimental health and environmental effects. The design and distribution of improved cookstoves that increase combustion efficiency and reduce indoor air pollution are a global priority.

Ambient Air Pollution and Clinical Implications for Susceptible Populations.

Air pollution is associated with a diversity of health effects, and evidence for a causal relationship with specific diseases exists. Exposure to air pollution is ubiquitous and typically beyond the control of the individual; the resulting health burden for the population can be high. Disproportionate effects are seen in individuals who have increased susceptibility to air pollution owing to individual- or community-level characteristics.

Ambient Air Pollution and Chronic Bronchitis in a Cohort of U.S. Women.

Background: Limited evidence links air pollution exposure to chronic cough and sputum production. Few reports have investigated the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and classically defined chronic bronchitis.

Objectives: Our objective was to estimate the association between long-term exposure to particulate matter (diameter <10 μm, PM; <2.

Occupational Exposures and Subclinical Interstitial Lung Disease. The MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) Air and Lung Studies.

Rationale: The impact of a broad range of occupational exposures on subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD) has not been studied.

Objectives: To determine whether occupational exposures to vapors, gas, dust, and fumes (VGDF) are associated with high-attenuation areas (HAA) and interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA), which are quantitative and qualitative computed tomography (CT)-based measurements of subclinical ILD, respectively.

Methods: We performed analyses of participants enrolled in MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), a population-based cohort aged 45-84 years at recruitment.

Estimating pediatric asthma prevalence in rural senegal: A cross-sectional survey.

Rationale: In Senegal, the prevalence of childhood asthma and utilization of appropriate asthma therapies is unknown.

Methodology: We used the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) survey instrument to assess childhood respiratory health in rural Senegal. We interviewed the caregivers of children aged 5 through 8 years of age in the four largest Niakhar villages in August 2012.

The burden of influenza-associated critical illness hospitalizations.

Objective: Influenza is the most common vaccine-preventable disease in the United States; however, little is known about the burden of critical illness due to influenza virus infection. Our primary objective was to estimate the proportion of all critical illness hospitalizations that are attributable to seasonal influenza.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.