Lung Capacity and Respiratory Muscle Strength in Obese Children

• Autor(a) principal: Bertolini, Sonia Maria Marques Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Koseki, Luciana Cláudia da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/1884
• topic: Broncho-spirometry; Spirometry; Obesity.; Broncoespirometria; Espirometria; Obesidade.

The influence of children’s obesity on lung capacity and on respiratory muscle strength is provided. One hundred and sixty-two children, 85 males and 77 females, aged between 8 and 11 years old, from two government schools in Maringá PR Brazil, were evaluated. Evaluation card, spirometer and manometer were used for data collection. Results show that 63.46% of obese children had normal lung capacity, whereas non-obese children with normal functional capacity were 57.27% of the sample. Maximum inspiration pressure with normal values in obese children reached 71.15%, whereas in non-obese children it amounted to 63.46%. Normal rates of maximum expiration pressure in obese children reached 63.46% whereas in non-obese children it was normal in 58.18%. Since statistical analysis failed to demonstrate any correlation between lung function parameters and anthropometric measures, moderate children obesity doesn’t interfere in aerate functional capacity and in breathing muscular capacity.