Study to Show Changes in Pulmonary Functions Due To Central Obesity

Background: Obesity is an important health problem in the world, but also growing fast in the developing countries like India. Specifically, centralobesityisassociatedwithgreaterhealthriskthanlowerbodyobesity.Obesityismeasured using waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI). The association between body mass index, waist circumference and dynamic pulmonary function test (PFT) varies in different populations and shows controversial results. Methods and Materials: Present study covered 150 healthy sedentary employees of age group (30-40) years, who worked in an air conditioned environment of a private motor vehicle centers at Jabalpur for a minimum of six years. Their anthropometric measurementsheight, weight, waist-hip circumference, chest expansion are measured to calculate body mass index, waist-hip ratio and total body fat%. Spirometry was performed after informed consent in all these subjects. FEV1, FVC, FEV1/FVC ratio, PEFR, FEF 25-75 was recorded. Results: When PFT variables of low BMI and overweight BMI group was compared with that of normal BMI group, the result shows inverse relation between BMI, WC and FEV1/FVC which indicates an obstructive airway diseases and it would be worsen in genetically prone high BMI subjects. FEF25-75 varies proportionatelywith increasing BMI indicates deterioratinglungfunctions. Conclusions: An attempt was done to bring awareness about variation of lung functions with increase in BMI and WC. Life style modifications and interventions to keep BMI and WC at normal level might help us in moving forward for eradication of obesity and impairment of pulmonary functions.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Annals of Applied Bio-Sciences

• Publication date

  2018-01-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.21276/aabs.1915
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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