Table 3 Associations between HAP exposure and risk of neonatal, infant, and under-five child mortality in Myanmar.

From: Association between household air pollution and child mortality in Myanmar using a multilevel mixed-effects Poisson regression with robust variance

Exposures

Neonatal mortality

p-value

Infant mortality

p-value

Under-five mortality

p-value

RR (95% CI)

RR (95% CI)

RR (95% CI)

Unadjusted

Exposure to household air pollution

Clean fuel

1.00

1.00

1.00

Solid fuel

1.53 (0.69–3.38)

0.298

1.59 (0.85–2.99)

0.147

1.77 (0.94–3.32)

0.078

Levels of exposure to household air pollution

Unexposed

1.00

1.00

1.00

Moderate

1.72 (0.73–4.08)

0.219

1.66 (0.82–3.33)

0.158

1.83 (0.93–3.61)

0.080

High

1.41 (0.63–3.15)

0.406

1.56 (0.83–2.94)

0.169

1.73 (0.91–3.31)

0.094

Adjusteda

Exposure to household air pollution

Clean fuel

1.00

1.00

1.00

Solid fuel

0.95 (0.64–1.40)

0.780

2.02 (1.01–4.05)

0.048

2.16 (1.07–4.36)

0.031

Levels of exposure to household air pollution

Unexposed

1.00

1.00

1.00

Moderate

0.96 (0.66–1.39)

0.829

1.94 (0.92–4.08)

0.081

2.11 (1.02–4.40)

0.045

High

1.02 (0.67–1.54)

0.938

2.15 (1.04–4.43)

0.038

2.25 (1.08–4.69)

0.030

  1. RR relative risks, CI confidence interval.
  2. aMultilevel Mixed-effects Poisson Regression models were adjusted for child age, child sex, breastfeeding status, maternal education, household wealth quintiles, urbanicity, geographic region, preceding birth interval and season.