Increased risk of respiratory illness associated with kerosene fuel use among women and children in urban Bangalore, India

Jae-Young Choi; Jill Baumgartner; Sarah Harnden; Bruce H Alexander; Robert J Town; George D'Souza; Gurumurthy Ramachandran

doi:10.1136/oemed-2014-102472

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Increased risk of respiratory illness associated with kerosene fuel use among women and children in urban Bangalore, India

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Jae-Young Choi Division of Business, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jill Baumgartner Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sarah Harnden Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce H Alexander Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Robert J Town Department of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
George D'Souza Department of Chest Diseases, St John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gurumurthy Ramachandran Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 807, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; ramac002{at}umn.edu

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Choi J, Baumgartner J, Harnden S, et al

Increased risk of respiratory illness associated with kerosene fuel use among women and children in urban Bangalore, India

Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2015;72:114-122.

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Received July 21, 2014
Revised September 25, 2014
Accepted October 6, 2014
First published October 23, 2014.

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April 27, 2016

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