Keywords
Pulmonary function test
Restrictive lung disease
Obstructive lung disease
Respiratory flow
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Abstract
AIM: To evaluate the variation within normal respiratory flow parameters in physiology students from the faculty of medicine, in Universidad de Ciencias Médicas during the first semester of 2018 using dynamic respirometry in obstructive and restrictive conditions.
METHODS: 7 subjects with good health, selected from students taking physiology in Universidad de Ciencias Médicas during the first semester of 2018. They were subjected to three different dynamic respirometry tests: in repose, and simulating obstructive and restrictive conditions in a respiratory cycle
RESULTS: The statistics demonstrated there was no significant difference for most of the evaluated respiratory flow parameters. The following parameters did not demonstrate a significant difference in our subjects: FEV1, VFC, PIF, FEF25-75, and Tiffeneau index. Our study demonstrated that PEF suffered a reduction as it was subjected to the different simulated conditions.
CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated that there was no significant difference in the respiratory flow parameters (except PEF) between the three conditions to which our subjects were tested to.
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