Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

EFFECT OF SMOKING ON NERVE CONDUCTION VELOCITY OF MEDIAN NERVE

Dr. Sagar R. Chavan, Dr. Sneha Sathe

Abstract :

  Introduction: There are very few ambiguous and inconclusive studies, who have worked on nerve conduction functions in smokers. Hence, present study was undertaken. Objectives: To study Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) in sensory and motor fies of median nerve in healthy male smokers and compare with age, BMI matched non–smokers. Material and Methods: Study was conducted in 120 subjects belonging to age group 25–45 years. Sensory and motor NCV was tested in median nerve in dominant upper limb by standard method in apparently healthy male smokers, who were subdivided according to smoking index into mild, moderate and heavy smokers group (30 subjects/group). Control group had 30 age & BMI matched non–smokers. Mean values of NCV of different groups were compared statistically by one way Anova test and Bonferroni’s test. Results: The difference in mean values of NCV (m/sec) in sensory median nerve of smokers was statistically significant among all the compared groups. The difference in mean values of NCV (m/sec) in motor median nerve was statistically non–significant among all the compared groups. Conclusion: Smoking reduces conduction velocity in sensory fies of median nerve while it does not affect conduction velocity in motor fies in apparently healthy smokers.

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Dr.Sagar R. Chavan, Dr.Sneha Sathe, EFFECT OF SMOKING ON NERVE CONDUCTION VELOCITY OF MEDIAN NERVE, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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