Environmental Factors Predict Risk of Death
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Using wood- or kerosene-burning stoves, not properly ventilated through a chimney, to cook food or heat the home also increasd overall risk of death (by 23% and 9%) and cardiovascular death risk (by 36% and 19%).
Key Points:
- Using wood- or kerosene-burning stoves, not properly ventilated through a chimney, to cook food or heat the home also increasd overall risk of death (by 23% and 9%) and cardiovascular death risk (by 36% and 19%).
- Living far from specialty medical clinics and near busy roads also increased risk of death.
- Traditional research on environmental risk factors, the researchers note, has favored urban populations in high-income countries with much greater access to modern health care services.
- They then created a predictive model on overall death risk and death risk from cardiovascular disease.