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Context: As an average normal person spend maximum of its time in his working environment it is major contributor in determining the persons overall health. A good quality of air is an important factor for normal health of an individual. Aim: To find out immediate effect of chest mobility exercise and incentive spirometry exercise on cement factory worker. Setting and design: The interventional study was carried out in cement factories of aburoad. Method and material: 40 subjects were included in the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and divided into 2 groups with 20 participants in each group. One group received chest mobility exercise and other group received incentive spirometry exercise. Results: Statistically is significant (p<0.05) the result showed high significant difference within & between the two groups .There was more effect of incentive spirometry exercise compared to chest mobility exercise. Conclusion: The above study concluded that both the technique showed marked improvement but the incentive spirometry exercise is more effective for the cement factory workers and it is easy to perform for the participants.
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Introduction: Obesity is becoming one of the serious publichealth problems of modern world with rapidly changinglifestyles involving consumption of high calorie foods withdecreased physical activities. Spirometery is the initialscreening tool for pulmonary diseases. The aim of this studywas to evaluate the prevalence of deranged BMI, pulmonaryfunction tests and correlation between BMI and pulmonaryfunction test.Material and methods: This study was done on 300 femalesubjects in the age group of 18-25 years including 150 fromrural area and 150 from urban area of North Indian populations.Various anthropometric measurements (height, weight) weretaken. BMI was calculated. Parameters of pulmonary functiontests such as FVC, FEV1,FEV1/FVC,FEF25-75%,PEFR weremeasured by spirometer.Results: The mean value of BMI in rural and urban populationis (23.33±4.75) and (22.55±4.57) respectively. On comparingPulmonary function parameters of both the population, allthe parameters were significantly higher in urban populationexcept FEV1/FVC.Conclusion: Prevalence of deranged BMI was significantlyhigher in rural population. Negative correlation found betweenBMI with Pulmonary function tests in both population exceptFEV1 and FVC which showed positive correlation in urbanpopulation.
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Backgrounds And Objectives: Tobacco consumption in different forms is a common addiction in the socio-economically handicapped population in many developing countries there are few data on the uantitative effects of cigarette smoking on lung function in young adults. These effects are important in the understanding of the early stages of chronic airflow obstruction. Material and method: Our study was performed on a total of 100 subjects (50 control and 50 were cigarette smokers) with the age group between 15-40 years were selected. Smokers were categorized into mild, moderate and severe smokers on the basis of number of cigarette smoke per day. Computerised spirometery examination was performed on both control and smokers. Results and Interpretation: We observed an inverse dose–response relation between smoking and FEV1, FVC, FEV1/FVC, PEFR; FEF etc. severe smokers had a low FEV1, PEFR, and FVC than control group. Conclusion: Cigarette smoking has a dose related adverse effect on the evolution of ventilatory lung function in young adulthood. Cigarette smoking is associated with evidence of airway obstruction and slowed growth of lung function in adults, exposure to cigarette smoke led to a greater increase in the number of mucus- producing tracheal goblet cells that enhanced the airway obstruction that may be the cause for decline in the lung functions.