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F V Rasmussen

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PubMed1978

Associations between housing conditions, smoking habits and ventilatory lung function in men with clean jobs.

In 218 men, who had minimal occupational exposure to dusts, fumes, temperature variability, or physical exercise, the relation between housing conditions throughout life and lung function was analysed. The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%. Significant dose-response relationships between smoking habits and FEV1, MMEF, CC% and slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III) were found, whereas closing volume, CV%, was only correlated to age. The association between dwelling conditions and ventilatory capacity was independent of smoking habits. Tobacco smoking, however, moderated the association in as much as it was strengthened after standardisation for tobacco consumption. These data support the hypothesis that poor dwelling conditions during childhood and adolescence are associated with development of peripheral airways disease and expiratory airflow obstruction at middle age, and that comparisons of lung function between different occupational categories are incomplete and may be misleading if lifelong housing conditions or other factors reflecting socio-economic status are not taken into consideration.

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PubMed1977

Lung function and long-term exposure to cement dust.

In a cross-sectional epidemiological survey a selected group of former and present cement factory workers and a random sample of the corresponding urban population underwent dynamic spirometry. Based upon life experience the subjects were grouped into four occupational categories. Three hundred and one men were grouped as cement factory workers, 649 were grouped as blue collar workers, 218 as white collar workers and 102 men had predominantly been occupied in farming, forestry and fishing. On the average the investigated men had spent more than 75% of their total occupational life in their main occupational category. Each occupational category was further subdivided according to smoking habits and in all categories the well-known association between tobacco consumption and decrease in ventilatory capacity was found. White collar workers, who smoke less and had experienced better housing conditions throughout life had better ventilatory lung function than any of the other three occupational categories. No significant differences in lung function between cement factory workers and other blue collar workers with comparable smoking habits could be demonstrated by use of the maximal midexpiratory flow (MMEF), or any other of the calculated indices from the dynamic spirometry, when standardized for age, height and body weight.

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PubMed1976

Added apparatus dead space in the N2-closing volume test: - a refinement or a bias.

14 subjects without symptoms of cardiopulmonary disease underwent paired closing volume determinations by the modified single breath nitrogen test. Measurements were performed with an apparatus dead space of approximately 40 ml and approximately 350 ml. A rise in closing volume percent for all subjects was found in measurements with dead space of 350 ml. This Difference was statistically significant at the 0.001 level for the group as a whole. No change in the accuracy of the method, expressed as the standard deviation of each subjects values with and without added dead space cojld be demonstrated. Linear regression analysis of the closing volume percent values measured with added dead space as a function of closing volume percent values measured without added dead space showed the expected highly significant positive correlation. However the regression line was not parallel to line of identity, indicating that the higher the initial value of closing volume percent the higher rise after addition of apparatus dead space. With reference to characterizing a person as normal or abnormal this could be considered a refinement of the method.

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PubMed1976

Epidemiological limitations of the nitrogen closing volume test.

Closing volume was measured in 216 men aged 46-68 years. They were divided in 5 age groups and classified as either symptomatic or asymptomatic according to answer to standardized interviews. In 3 of 5 age groups mean value for closing volume percent (CV%) for symptomatic persons was lower than the mean value for asymptomatic persons. CV% is not considered useful as the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis. In all 5 age groups the mean value of slope of alveolar plateau was higher for symptomatic than for asymptomatic persons. Slope af alveolar plateau is considered useful as dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis. One of the reasons for the false negative CV%-values is believed to be influence of increased uneven and sequential ventilation of the lungs, expressed in the slope of alveolar plateau.

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