National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Glass Industry workers use to blow the glass so that desired shape can be achieved and this task of blowing requires certain amount of pressure from the lungs. So, to assess the respiratory and pulmonary functions among blowers of the glass manufacturing unit, 30 glass blowers and 30 non-glass blowers were selected for spirometry using medspiror and 120 workers selected randomly from manufacturing unit to assess the subjective symptoms of respiratory problems using checklist. The result of subjective analysis shows that majorly reported respiratory problems among workers were cough (49.17%), body ache (38.33%) and chest pain (32.50%) Observations of spirometry revealed a positive and significant correlation between FEV1(r=0.402), PEFR(r=0.387) and weight. Among glass blowers and non blowers group, significant difference was found for the means values of FEV1 % predicted (0.032) and FEF 25-75% measured (0.003) and FEF 25-75% predicted % (0.018) at 5% level of significance and also noteworthy variation was found in FEV1 measured (0.026), FEV1 predicted (0.016), FEF25-75 measured (0.018), FEF25-75 predicted (0.047) at 5 % level of significance among these group.
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