<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Crispin, friends:</div><div><br></div><div>Join me in celebrating an avoided premature death and hopefully 25 DALYs for me today. </div><div><br></div><div>Took just an hour. </div><div><br></div><div>Despite EPA/WHO's air pollution. </div><div><br></div><div>Hospitals need more money, not oil companies. </div><div><br></div><div>IHME is responsible for 50 million premature deaths per year. <br><br>Nikhil <div><br></div></div><div><br>On May 15, 2018, at 1:04 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Further to my message a couple of days ago, here is the link to a more realistic assessment by the WHO. This link is on the same page as the misinformation quoted earlier. </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health">http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health</a></div>
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<div>It correctly talked about premature deaths, not causes of death. </div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(60, 66, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Exposure to household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood pneumonia and is responsible for 45% of all pneumonia deaths in children less
than 5 years old. Household air pollution is also risk for acute lower respiratory infections (pneumonia) in adults, and contributes to 28% of all adult deaths to pneumonia.</span> </div>
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<div>One quibble is that the number claimed for PM2.5 being a 'cause of pneumonia' does not disaggregate chest infections cause by chronic under-heating from smoke-attributable conditions. </div>
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Regards
<div>Crispin </div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>