Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

OCCUPATIONAL RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS AND LUNG FUNCTION IMPAIRMENT STUDY IN SWEEPERS.

Dr. Kartikey Kukade, Dr. Mamta Rode

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Sweepers are at high risk of exposure to complex mixture of pollutants – soil dust, bio aerosols which make them susceptible to occupational lung diseases. We studied respiratory symptoms and lung function in 60 sweepers and 60 healthy males. Anthropometric measurements were recorded . Lung function test were performed on medspiror. 20% sweepers had eathlessness, 14% cough, 10.7% cough with sputum. There was statistically significant decrease in forced vital capacity, maximum ventilatory volume, peak expiratory flow rate, forced expiratory volume in first second in sweepers.

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DR. KARTIKEY KUKADE, DR. MAMTA RODE, OCCUPATIONAL RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS AND LUNG FUNCTION IMPAIRMENT STUDY IN SWEEPERS., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018

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