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Women cooking with biomass fuels more likely to have cataracts [1]

Women in India who cook using fuels such as wood, crop residues and dried dung instead of cleaner fuels are more likely to have visually impairing nuclear cataracts¹, according to a new study publi

Publication Date: 
26/05/2016
Eurek Alert [2]
Tags:
Air Pollution [3], Health Effects [4], Eye Diseases [5], Women [6], India [7], Biomass [8], Firewood [9], Charcoal [10], South Asia [11]
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/eye-diseases
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/firewood
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/charcoal
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia