Colin Sumpter|Daniel Chandramohan
Systematic review and meta?analysis of the associations between indoor air pollution and tuberculosis
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
abstract objective half worlds population uses biomass fuel daily needs resultant emissions indoor air pollution iap harmful health far evidence link iap tuberculosis tb insufficient report updated systematic review due recent increase evidence growing interest testing interventions methods systematic search p ub ed including edline cab abstracts vid sp w eb k nowledge using following search terms iap biomass cooking smoke tb 452 abstracts reviewed 12 articles deemed reporting effects iap tb taken forward full review one study added hand search references data measures effect iap tb extracted metaanalysis carried estimate pooled measures effect results thirteen studies reported investigating association iap tb since 1996 tb cases likely exposed iap healthy controls pooled 130 95 ci 104162 p 002 conclusions increasingly strong evidence association iap tb studies needed understand burden tb attributable iap interventions clean cook stoves reduce adverse effects iap merit rigorous evaluation particularly frica ndia prevalence iap tb high