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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(3):709-710; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi077
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Commentary: Smoke pulls the blinds

Nino Künzli

Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 236, 9013 HSC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. E-mail: kuenzli@usc.edu

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In this issue, Pokhrel et al. publish an intriguing study from the Nepal–India border region that calls our attention to both what it shows and what it hides.1 This case–control study suggests an almost 2-fold risk for cataract related blindness among women using solid fuel unvented stoves. This risk gradient is similar to the one described between smokers and non-smokers.2,3 As in many economically underprivileged countries, unvented stoves are a far more prevalent problem than smoking.4,5 In fact, 80% of cases as well as 57% of the controls in this hospital-based study reported the use of unvented stoves . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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