title: Pulmonary Function Studies of Healthy Non-smoking Male University Students of Kolkata, India - Revisited.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) need to be revisited in light of rapid economic growth and industrial development. Questions have been raised about the validity of existing population-specific norms for predicting PFTs, and therefore, the present study aimed to determine the applicability of existing norms for PFTs in young healthy non-smoking male university students of Kolkata.
  
  
  METHODS
  PFTs were carried out for 87 non-smoking male university students who were randomly sampled from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The PFTs data obtained in this study did not show a significant variation with that obtained in a previous study. Significant (P < 0.001) differences in the forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1%) and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) between the two studies may be attributed to differences in the age and body height, which exhibited significant correlations with the vital capacity (VC), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1, FEV1%, and PEFR. Regression equations have been computed to predict PFTs parameters from age and body height.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pulmonary function in the university students of Kolkata was found to have remained mostly unchanged in the last 24 years. The equations computed in this study are considered preferable owing to their substantially smaller standard error of estimate (SEE) than those proposed in the previous study.
authors: Sports and Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, University College of Science and Technology, 92, A. P. C. Road, Kolkata, 700009, India.
authors: Amit
authors: A
authors: Bandyopadhyay
authors: Ishita
authors: I
authors: Bhattacharjee
authors: Rishna
authors: R
authors: Dalui
authors: Sangita
authors: S
authors: Pal
keywords: FEV1%; FVC; Indian; PEFR; Pulmonary function
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