Association between wood cooking fuel and maternal hypertension at delivery in central East India.

CONCLUSIONS: Combustion products from the burning of biomass fuels are similar to those released with tobacco smoking, which has been linked with a reduced risk for preeclampsia. The direction of our findings suggests the possibility of a similar effect for biomass cook smoke. Whether clean cooking interventions being promoted by international advocacy organizations will impact hypertension in pregnancy warrants further analysis as hypertension remains a leading cause of maternal death worldwide and cooking with biomass fuels is widespread. PMID: 26153626 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26153626?dopt=Abstract

Source: Hypertension in Pregnancy - February 17, 2016 Category: OBGYN Tags: Hypertens Pregnancy Source Type: research