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- Title
Pulmonary functions and ambient air pollution in residents of Delhi.
- Authors
Goyal, Abhinav; Khaliq, Farah
- Abstract
Background: Particulate air pollution has been implicated as contributing to the incidence and severity of respiratory disease. With increasing number of vehicles Delhi is one of the most polluted cities of the world. Objectives: The present study was planned to assess the effect of pollution on pulmonary functions in the residents of Delhi spread over the five areas (i.e. north, south, east, west and central Delhi). Methods: Study was conducted on two hundred and fifty males who were divided into five groups according to the areas of Delhi. Each of the five groups consisted of fifty male subjects between 18-25 years of age and were non-smokers. All the pulmonary functions (flow rates, lung volumes and capacities) were measured by Datospir 120 B portable spirometer under standard conditions. The different groups were compared by oneway ANOVA with Tukey test at 5% level of significance. Result and Conclusion: No significant difference in pulmonary functions between the groups was observed but the trend is towards lower values in the residents of Central Delhi. The ambient air quality data shows the level of SPM and RSPM above the acceptable standards in all the above five areas with maximum exceedance in central Delhi.
- Publication
Indian Journal of Medical Specialities, 2011, Vol 2, Issue 2, p96
- ISSN
0976-2884
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.7713/ijms.2011.0025