"ATS 2018 - Household Air Pollution Exposure and Pulmonary Function In Infants"
Alison Lee, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the background and findings of her presentation entitled In Utero Household Air Pollution Exposure Is Associate with Reduced Pulmonary Function in Infants. “Our research looks at household air pollution exposure, which is air pollution that results from the burning of solid fuels in traditional cook stoves. Approximately 2.8 billion people or 40 percent of the world’s population rely on the burning of solid fuels for their daily cooking and heating needs,” she said. “Our research suggests that, similar to other studies of prenatal tobacco exposure, increasing levels of household air pollution exposure affect lung development, beginning prenatally. Those changes are measurable even at four weeks of life,” Dr. Lee added.
- Alison Lee, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai