Long-term exposure to household air pollution from fuels such as kerosene or diesel is likely to increase the risk of heart attack and death warn researchers including an Indian origin scientist. One-half of the world's population lives in poverty and burns fuels for lighting cooking and heating purposes according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Our study is the first to find a significant and independent increased risk for all-cause total cardiovascular disease and heart attack deaths due to increasing lifetime exposures to household air pollution from kerosene or diesel burning said lead researcher Sumeet Mitter from Northwestern University in
