Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Assessment of pulmonary function test in athletic and non athletic individuals

Pravin Dhepe, Aruna Vinchurkar

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Introduction: Pulmonary function is governed by genetic, environmental and nutritional factors and confirms that physical training during growth help in developing a greater endurance in respiratory muscles. Objectives: to study pulmonary functions of the athletic and non athletic individuals at department of physiology at tertiary health care centre. Materials and Methods: This was a cross–sectional study carried out in the department of physiology during the one year period i.e. March 2018 to March 19. During the one year period there were 100 volunteers participated into study out of which 50 were doing the athletic exercise like marathon running, swimming etc. since six months were considered as athletic and those individual not doing any active exercise or activity were considered as sedentary were selected randomly . 50 sedentary were selected randomly. All details of the patients like age, sex BMI was recorded. All the patients with written and explained consent were undergone pulmonary function test by under all standard protocols. The statistical analysis was done by unpaired t–test and chi–square test. Result : In our study we have seen that The average age was comparable i.e. 37.98±3.42 and 38.29± 2.75 (t=0.78,df=48,p>0.05);and the proportion of Male : Female was also comparable i.e. 1.5 as to 1.6 (X2=2.34,df=1,p>0.05) . The FVC was 90.12 and 79.80 (t=3.45,p< 0.01); FEV1– 88.15 and 72.01 (t=4.19,p)< 0.01; FEV3 was 87.34 and 75.30 (t=5.13,p< 0.01); PEFR– 94.45 and 87.16 (t=3.87,p< 0.01); FEV1/FVC was 92.1 and 83.28 (t=10.76 ,p< 0.001) was significantly higher in Athletic group as compared to Sedentary group. Conclusion : It can be concluded from our study that Athletic group were superior in terms of Pulmonary functions i.e. FVC, FEV1, FEV3 , PEFR, FEV1/FVC as compared to sedentary volunteers .

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ASSESSMENT OF PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST IN ATHLETIC AND NON ATHLETIC INDIVIDUALS, Pravin Dhepe, Aruna Vinchurkar INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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