COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE IN SOUTH INDIAN HEALTHY FEMALES AND ASTHMATIC FEMALES
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Sindhura Koganti, Dhanasekar T, Anisha Anisha, Abdul Majeed Arshad, Hemanth L, Chandrasekar C
2016 Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences  
AIM AND OBJECTIVES Cross-sectional study to compare the peak expiratory flow rate with the help of "Mini-Wright" peak flow meter among females, normal healthy subjects and subjects who are asthmatics of age group 20-40 years. METHOD 60 adult females of age group 20-40 years (30-Healthy and 30-Asthmatics) for whom baseline pulmonary function testing was done to differentiate normal and asthmatic. All cases were clinically examined to rule-out any obvious cardiopulmonary diseases. Subjects were
more » ... ovided one mini Wright's peak expiratory flow meter, were individually trained for measuring their own PEFR in L/min and were instructed to record the readings with Wright's portable peak
doi:10.14260/jemds/2016/162 fatcat:5lyrssglpvgqhfv5y4ri6qewsm