Pulmonary function test in healthy school children of 8 to 14 years age in south Gujarat region, India

Lung India

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 145-148

  Doctor, Tahera H ^a   Trivedi, Sangeeta S ^a   Chudasama, Rajesh K ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b PDU Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

Age; body surface area; forced vital capacity; healthy children; height; peak expiratory flow rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; SCHOOL CHILD; SITTING; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 77956244733     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.68317     Document Type: Article

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