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R E Binder

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PubMed1976

Lung function among black and white children.

Racial differences in ventilatory lung function were evaluated in a community study of 393 children (158 blacks, 235 whites). Mean forced vital capacity was 18 per cent larger in nonsmoking white males than in nonsmoking black males, and 11 per cent larger in nonsmoking white females than in nonsmoking black females. Similar differences were observed for the 1-sec forced expiratory volume and for the maximal expiratory flow at 50 per cent of the vital capacity. However, when adjusted for lung size (on the basis of forced vital capacity), 1-sec forced expiratory volume and maximal expiratory flow at 50 per cent of the forced vital capacity were larger in the black children compared to the white children. Lung function prediction equations based on race, sex, age, height and weight are presented for healthy nonsmoking children; these allow for an evaluation of normal lung function in both black and white children.

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PubMed1976

Orthodontic welding.

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Orthodontic Appliances↗
PubMed1975

Use of the productive cough test to confirm presence of respiratory symptoms in school-age children.

We assessed the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and loose cough in 622 school-age children from an urban town in Connecticut. A higher prevalence of chronic symptoms was reported by black children, but the prevalence of recent symptoms and of loose cough in black children was similar to that in white children. The relationship between prevalence of recent symptoms and loose cough suggests that the observed racial differences in prevalence of chronic symptoms were unlikely to be due to racial differences in responses to a respiratory symptom questionnaire.

Adolescent↗
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Importance of the indoor environment in air pollution exposure.

A portable personal air pollution sampler was used to measure the exposure of twenty children to respirable particulates, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide over a 24-hour period. Particulate exposures were significantly higher among children who lived with one or more smokers, and exceeded the primary air quality standard in nineteen of the twenty subjects. To a large extent, an individual's respirable particulate load appears to be determined by exposure to indoor rather than outdoor pollutants.

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