期刊名称:International Journal of Basic & Applied Physiology
印刷版ISSN:2320-172X
出版年度:2013
期号:1453
页码:25-29
出版社:Society of Basic & Applied Physiology
摘要:Background: To determine the effect of obesity on pulmonary function abnormality in young adult male medical students. Method : One fourty male subjects underwent physical examination, computerised pulmonary function tests (spirometry, lung volumes) and various anthropometric measurements ( waist-hip ratio,BMI, skin fold thickness)out of which seventy were case and seventy were control. Result: Result showed that expiratory reserve volume and maximum voluntary ventilation were significantly decreased in overweight group (p