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. 2023 Feb;160(2):449-450.
doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14484. Epub 2022 Oct 12.

Household air pollution and incidence of eclampsia in eight low- and middle-income countries

Tanya Robbins  1 , Katy Kuhrt  1 , Nicola Vousden  1 , Paul Seed  1 , Andrew Shennan  1
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Household air pollution and incidence of eclampsia in eight low- and middle-income countries

Tanya Robbins et al. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

The authors found a strong correlation between national‐level data for deaths from household pollution and eclampsia rates in the CRADLE 3 (Community Blood Pressure Monitoring in Rural Africa & Asia: Detection of Underlying Pre‐Eclampsia and Shock) study clusters (correlation coefficient: 0.84).

Keywords: air pollution; eclampsia; pre-eclampsia; pregnancy.

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There are no relationships for any author that could compromise the objectivity of the paper and its review.

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