Assessment of Pulmonary Function and its correlation with anthropometric measurements amongst Healthy Urban School Children

Dr. Renu Kale; Dr. Medha Bhagwat

Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2019

Assessment of Pulmonary Function and its correlation with anthropometric measurements amongst Healthy Urban School Children

Dr. Renu Kale, Dr. Medha Bhagwat

Abstract :

Respiratory diseases is one of the common cause of morbidity in children most commonly affected by the acute and chronic illnesses. The estimation of the pulmonary function though not useful in etiological diagnosis is useful in defining the type of process whether obstructive or restrictive and the degree of functional impairment in following the course of treatment of disease and its prognosis. Indian literature lacks the data on the spirometric analysis of children primarily d.ue to lack of cooperation of patients and trained persons, hence the present study was designed to study the pulmonary function tests through flow volume curves by spirometry in urban school children aged 10 to 15 years and to correlate the same with certain anthropometric measurements like height, weight and body surface area. This cross sectional prospective analytical study was carried out in urban school going children in and around Raipur over a period of 6 months after obtaining the ethics committee approval. 410/550 students were screened on the basis of their health status and adequacy of their expiratory efforts while performing spirometry. The various pulmonary functions along with the anthropometric parameters were measured and correlated after maintaining the data in Microsoft Office Excel and with appropriate statistical tools like tests of proportion and significance. A total of 410 students were included in the study. 222/410 (54.14%) were boys whereas 188/410 (45.86%) were girls. None of the participant was smoker but 215/410(52.4%) were having family history of smoking. None of the participant lived in the vicinity of factory, quarry or mine or any significant source of pollution. 408/410 (99.5%) students were having weight more than 80% of expected age as per Harvard�s reference standards. Coefficient of correlation was obtained between the anthropometric measurements and pulmonary function parameters in both males and females and was found to be highly significant. The study established the norms for various pulmonary functions in urban school going children in and around Raipur, CG. In the age group of 10 to 15 years. The Spirometric data have a positive correlation with the various anthropometric measurements.