期刊名称：International Journal of Basic & Applied Physiology
印刷版ISSN：2320-172X
出版年度：2014
期号：3527
页码：205-207
出版社：Society of Basic & Applied Physiology
摘要：Abstract: Background: In India, around 20 million workers are involved in food industry. With rapid industrialization of the developing world, food dust induced lung diseases are poised to become a global health problem. Aims & Objective: To evaluate and compare the lung functions in subjects exposed to food dust with unexposed once (control groups) and to find out the correlation between duration of exposure with observed respiratory parameters. Materials and Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted in McCain with the help of SPIROLAB II (MIR). A total of 200 individuals, 100 food industry workers and 100 healthy volunteers were included in this study. Results: The average FEV1/FVC ratio in food industry workers was 79.07 ± 9.73, which was significantly lower (p
