Finding · as stated by the study, recorded by Coridum · status verified-machine
Finding F-0831
“The CO levels in the study group dropped to a mean of 15.9% (95% CI 15.1-16.6), while the control group mean levels remained stable.”
Structure
- Source
- Biomass fuel
- Factor
- Carbon monoxide (CO)
- Population
- women of the intervention group
- Setting
- home, SD (one year after enrolment)
- Study design
- prospective cohort in Port Sudan, Sudan, 2016 to 2019: women who cooked indoors were offered a well-ventilated outdoor cooking shelter (rakoobah) and 24 weeks of household air pollution education, against a control group; carboxyhaemoglobin was measured by CO-oximetry in the women and in their children each year (class 3)
- Effect
- mean 15.9 (15.1–16.6)
- Flags
- implausible
- Caveat
- the paper calls this the CO level; it is carboxyhaemoglobin read by CO-oximetry, and a group mean this high sits in the range of severe poisoning, which pulse CO-oximetry is known to overstate - taken as printed
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