International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
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10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12
Volume 7 Issue 4
2016 (October - December)
Lung functions and quality of life in flour millworkers - a cross sectional study.
Occupational health represents a dynamic equilibrium or adjustment between the industrial workers and their occupational health. Occupational lung diseases mostly occur due to effect of dust depending upon the concentration of dust particles in the air, the fineness of the dust, health condition of worker exposure to environment. The study helped, to find out the effectiveness of dust exposure in lung function among flour mill workers and their quality of life. To find out lung function in flour mill workers, type of pathology and quality of life in flour mill workers. Methodology: Total 150 subjects were included in the study which was divided into 2 groups. Group A was having 75 flour mill workers and Group B was having 75 normal healthy subjects who were not exposed to flour mill dust. Assessment for BMI, chest expansion, PFT were taken (FVC, FEV lessThan sub greaterThan 1 lessThan /sub greaterThan , FEV lessThan sub greaterThan 1 lessThan /sub greaterThan /FVC,PEFR, FEF lessThan sub greaterThan 25-75% lessThan /sub greaterThan ) and Quality of life questionnaire SF-36 was filled. 95% confidence interval was considered to be significant. Chest expansion was significantly reduced at both the levels in Group A than Group B (p
REEMA RELKAR-JOSHI, MANISHA RATHI AND TUSHAR.PALEKAR
PFT, Flour mill workers, Quality of life, SF-36
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