Effect of 2-5 years of tobacco smoking on ventilatory function tests.
J Indian Med Assoc
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2003 Feb; 101(2): 96-7, 108
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-100415
ABSTRACT
Smoking is a pernicious scourge of the world today. There is paucity of literature on the effect of acute smoking on ventilatory functions. The present work is undertaken to study the effect of 2-5 years of tobacco smoking on ventilatory functions. The study group consisted of 30 male, young, healthy subjects, free from cardiopulmonary diseases and with history of smoking of 2-5 years duration, on an average of 10 cigarettes per day. The control group consisted of 30 age-and sex-matched healthy individuals who had naver smoked tobacco. The ventilatory function tests were carried out using electronic spriolyser. There was a significant lowering of the following parameters in smokers Vital capacity (VC), inspiratory reserve volume (IRV), inspiratory capacity (IC), forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume at the end of first second (FEV1), maximum midexpiratory flow (MMEF), peak expiratory flow (PEF), midexpiratory flow75 (MEF75), maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV). This study shows that 2-5 years of tobacco smoking leads to a definite tendency to narrowing of both the large and the small airways.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Respiratory Function Tests
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Humans
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Male
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Smoking
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Case-Control Studies
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Adult
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Lung
Type of study:
Observational study
Language:
English
Journal:
J Indian Med Assoc
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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