EFFECT OF OBESITY ON PULMONARY FUNCTION

Authors

  • NIBEDITA PRIYADARSINI Department of Physiology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • DIPTI MOHAPATRA Department of Physiology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • MANASI BEHERA Department of Physiology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.

Keywords:

Pulmonary function test, Body mass index, Obesity, Spirometry

Abstract

The magnitude of the increasing  obesity prevalence has become important health problem. The present study was done to correlate obesity  with respiratory function in a group of Indian population. A total of 99 cases between age group 15-45 years of both sexes were taken with no history of asthma or any respiratory diseases. Their height, weight, BMI were measured. The persons having BMI 18.5-22.99 were taken as control group for age and sex. The persons with BMI 25kg/m² to 40kg/m² were taken as study(obese) group.  Then Spirometry (both static & dynamic lung volumes) was performed in all subjects. FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, ERV, MVV were used as measures of ventilatory function. FVC, FEV1, ERV & MVV were decreased in  obese group. These results indicate that obesity had negative correlation with pulmonary function. 

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Published

30.06.2014

How to Cite

NIBEDITA PRIYADARSINI, DIPTI MOHAPATRA, & MANASI BEHERA. (2014). EFFECT OF OBESITY ON PULMONARY FUNCTION. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 5(2), 333–338. Retrieved from https://ijpbs.net/index.php/journal/article/view/3547

Issue

Volume 5, Issue 2, 2014

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Research Articles

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