NITROGEN SINGLE BREATH TEST, FLOW-VOLUME CURVES AND SPIROMETRY IN HEALTHY-CHILDREN, 7-18 YEARS OF AGE
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 61 (5) , 275-286
Abstract
School children (140), 75 boys and 65 girls, aged 7-18 yr, underwent the following lung function tests: closing volume, slope of the alveolar plateau, maximal expiratory and inspiratory flows at 75, 50 and 25% of vital capacity, static and dynamic lung volumes. Lung volumes and maximal flows increase with height in an exponential way, the exponents varying between 2.6 and 3.1, while closing volume in percent of vital capacity and the slope of the alveolar plateau decrease linearily with increasing height. Regression equations are given for each sex with height as determinant.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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