How reducing cooking smoke affects children's lung health
Child Lung Development Following a Cookstove Intervention: Evidence from GRAPHS
['FUNDING_R01'] · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · NIH-11505240
This project finds out if cutting household cooking smoke during pregnancy and the first year helps children's lungs grow stronger through age 13.
Quick facts
| Phase | ['FUNDING_R01'] |
|---|---|
| Study type | Nih_funding |
| Sex | All |
| Sponsor | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES (nih funded) |
| Locations | 1 site (NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) |
| Trial ID | NIH-11505240 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
What this research studies
Researchers will follow children and their mothers from the GRAPHS pregnancy cohort in Ghana to link measured household air pollution from pregnancy through age one with lung health up to age 13. They will use validated lung function tests, symptom tracking, and biological samples to study airway mucus-related genes that might make some children more sensitive to smoke. The team will compare children with lower and higher early-life smoke exposure to see long-term effects on lung growth and respiratory symptoms. Findings will be used to guide affordable ways to reduce harmful smoke exposure in homes.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are children born to mothers who were in the GRAPHS cohort in Ghana or infants from similar communities exposed to household cooking smoke.
Not a fit: People without early-life exposure to household cooking smoke or adults whose lung disease began much later in life are unlikely to get direct benefit from this project.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could show that reducing household cooking smoke in pregnancy and infancy prevents long-term lung problems and points to cost-effective interventions.
How similar studies have performed: Previous cookstove and air-quality trials have reduced smoke exposure but produced mixed results on child lung outcomes, so this project builds on and extends prior work.
Where this research is happening
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (ACTIVE)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: JACK, DARBY — COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- Study coordinator: JACK, DARBY
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
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