Assessment of Respiratory Muscle Endurance in Type 1 & 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Maximum Voluntary Ventilation (MVV) test is an objective dynamic method of measuring the working capacity of respiratory muscles. Therefore, we designed the present study to determine the effect imposed by diabetes mellitus (Type 2) on respiratory muscle endurance in Jammu diabetic patients. In the present study, 100 diabetic patients of 50 Type I and 50 Type 2 and 50 healthy control. MVV showed significant decrease in male diabetic patients on oral medication. The findings suggest that there is significant decrease of respiratory muscle endurance in male diabetics on oral medication.