Our results contribute to an ongoing discussion
about appropriate proxies for IAP exposure measurement
(Ezzati, 2005). We found some evidence that
kitchen PM concentrations could be used as a proxy
measure of personal exposure for adult women, but not
for school-aged children. This supports findings in
rural India (Balakrishnan et al., 2002), even though
our results report 24-h exposure and are thus not
limited to only short periods of intense exposure during
cooking (this is also reflected by our lower correlation
of r = 0.58 vs. r = 0.94 obtained from the rural India