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Could biomass fuel use perpetuate the poverty trap through cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

A poverty trap is therefore not simply an absence of economic means; there are other factors at play, such as access to clean fuel and the high cost of health care. We used a subset of the baseline data (2004–2008) and follow-up endpoint data (to 31 December 2013) from the China Kadoorie Biobank. Int J Epidemiol 2021; 18 September.