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RESPIRATORY FUNCTION IN ABORIGINAL SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Chandler Dianne,
Dugdale A. E.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1979.tb112169.x
Subject(s) - vital capacity , spirometer , medicine , lung function , pulmonary function testing , spirometry , lung volumes , bronchodilator , demography , pediatrics , physical therapy , asthma , lung , exhaled nitric oxide , sociology , diffusing capacity
Two hundred and three school‐age Aboriginal children living on Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement have had lung function tested with a dry spirometer. As with other non‐Caucasian children, the forced vital capacity (FVC) was about 25% below values for Caucasian children, but the ratio between forced expiratory volume in one second and forced vital capacity (FEV 1 /FVC ratio), the mean mid‐expiratory flow rate (MMEFR) and testing before and after a bronchodilator showed no evidence of widespread airways disease. Analysis of a subgroup of 126 children snowed that birthweight, weight at one year of age, and current nutrition did not affect the level of the FVC.