Use of Cooking Fuels and Cataract in a Population-Based Study: The India Eye Disease Study
Conclusions: Our results provide robust evidence for the association of biomass fuels with cataract in women but not in men. Our finding for kerosene and cataract in women is novel and requires confirmation in other studies.
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Citation: Ravilla TD, Gupta S, Ravindran RD, Vashist P, Krishnan T, Maraini G, Chakravarthy U, Fletcher AE. Use of Cooking Fuels and Cataract in a Population-Based Study: The India Eye Disease Study. Environ Health Perspect; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP193
Received: 8 June 2015
Revised: 15 December 2015
Accepted: 25 April 2016
Published: 25 May 2016
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