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Comparative Study
. 2016 Jun;70(3):186-90.
doi: 10.5455/medarh.2016.70.186-190. Epub 2016 May 31.

The Effect of Body Mass Index on Spirometric Parameters in Children with Asthma

Amela Pasic  1 , Fahrija Skokic  1 , Fuad Pasic  2 , Miroslav Ilic  3
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Comparative Study

The Effect of Body Mass Index on Spirometric Parameters in Children with Asthma

Amela Pasic et al. Med Arch. 2016 Jun.

Abstract

Aim: Asthma and obesity represent one of the most crucial public and health problems of modern society that frequently begin in childhood and have some mutual elements of risk. Abdominal distribution of connective tissue is important determinant which brings to decrease of lungs function. Multiple influence of overweight on function of the lungs would clearly manifest over reduction of forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC).

Method: Examining was conducted at Pediatric Clinic of University Clinical Hospital Tuzla during the year 2013/2014. Research included 60 children with diagnosed asthma who were in relation to BMI were divided in 3 groups. The first group was children with BMI ranging from 5 to 85 percentile, the second were children with 85 to 95 percentile and the third was 95 percentile. By prospective study, compared identical pulmonary variable for all three age group of asthma patients were analyzed, the children with normal body mass a well as the overweight and the obese.

Results: At the beginning of testing, the frequency of normal spirometric findings was significantly lower in the obese group in comparison with other two observed groups (p<0,05). The only cases of mixed and restrictive disorder of ventilation were registered in the obese group of tested at the beginning of the examined (p<r0,001).

Conclusion: When being compared the values of spirometric parameters before and after the research, the only significant difference was in the obese group, the values after tests were significantly higher, with the exception of relation FEV1/FVC, that had the same distribution of values before and after research. However, the group with normal body mass and overweight, had all the spirometric parameters with equal distribution before and after research (p>0,05 for all measurements).

Keywords: asthma; children; obesity; spirometry.

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Conflict of interest statement

• Conflict of interest: None declared.

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The degree of disorder in spirometric medical findings at the beginning of testing
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The change of an abnormalities degree of spirometric finding during the tests in the group with normal body mass
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The change of a abnormalities degree of spirometric finding during the tests in the group with the overweight fed
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The change of an abnirmalitiese degree of spirometric finding during tests in the group with the obese
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