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Prior to the field work, multiple SUMS were attached to both stove types using heat-resistant tape and sampled every 10 sec during three independent cooking events.
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Instead, the independent variable is actual stove type used during pregnancy.
In previous studies, all exposures to solid fuel smoke were estimated from self-report of fuel and stove type used.
In the final multivariate model, the relationship between stove type used during pregnancy and birth weight was not statistically significant.
Because women may cook more (or less) during each trimester, we assessed differences by trimester and by stove type used during pregnancy.
Unadjusted linear regression models of the mean gram difference in infant birth weight by stove type used during pregnancy demonstrated that average birth weight was 68 g higher (95% CI, –56 to 191 g) among births to mothers who used the chimney stove versus open fire during pregnancy (Table 4).
Table 1 Estimating daily average wood saving of the Esperanza and 3-stone stoves Stove type Fuel use (kg) Fuel use/capita (kg/person) Energy use (MJ) Energy use/capita (MJ/per) 3-stone 4.2 2.1 78.3 29.8 Esperanza 7.8 2.9 147.5 54.5 Saving −6.1 −6.1 −6.12 −6.17.
Therefore, birth weight outcome analyses were based on actual stove type in use during the pregnancy during the observation period and not based on randomization, resulting in 69 births to women who used a chimney stove during pregnancy and 105 births to women who used an open fire during pregnancy (174 births to 164 women).
We combined information on cooking and heating with coal into a single variable with the following categories: no coal stove, coal stove used only for heating, coal stove used only for cooking, and coal stove used for both cooking and heating.
We constructed multivariate linear models of birth weight as a continuous outcome among exposed (open fire) and unexposed (stove) women, based on the stove type that was used during the pregnancy.
All three fuel-using stove types were positively associated with ALRI.
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