Volume : 5, Issue : 12, December - 2016

COMPARATIVE PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST AMONG NORMAL AND MALNOURISHED CHILDREN

Dr. N. S. V. M. Prabhakara Rao

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span class="tgc" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Pulmonary function</span></span><span class="tgc" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> tests are a oad range of tests that measure how well the lungs take in and exhale air and how efficiently they transfer oxygen into the blood.</span></span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> Aims and Objectives</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">:To compare the differences of pulmonary function between Normal and Malnourished children. <b>Materials and Methods</b>: The number of fifty children, attending Pediatrics Outpatients‘ Department of Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences, Vikarabad, in the age group of 7 to 14 years were randomly selected. They were divided into three groups of 7-9, 9-12, and 12-14 completed years. <b>Results:</b> Both FVC (r = 0.22, p &lt;0.02) and FEV1 (r = 0.24, p &lt;0.02) showed direct linear correlation with body weight. %FEV1/FVC was not different in healthy and&gt; malnourished children in 7-9 and 9-11 years age group.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>