Agarwal, Ravinder and Awasthi, Amit and Singh, Nirankar and Mittal, Susheel K. and Gupta, Prabhat Kumar (2013) Epidemiological study on healthy subjects affected by agriculture crop-residue burning episodes and its relation with their pulmonary function tests. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 23 (4). pp. 281-295. ISSN 0960-3123

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Abstract

Impact of agriculture crop-residue burning (ACRB) was studied on pulmonary function tests (PFTs) of 50 healthy subjects (13-53 years). Human subjects with no previous history of lung disease were residents of five sampling sites. Investigations were carried out from February 2007 to January 2010 using spirometry. Simultaneously, concentration levels of suspended particulate matter (PM) and fine particulates (PM2.5 and PM10) were monitored using high volume sampler and Anderson Cascade Impactor, respectively. The PFTs show a significant (p<0.05) decrease, while PM shows momentous increase during exhaustive burning of wheat and rice crop residues. Effect of ACRB on the peak expiratory flow rate (PEF) is more than that on force expiratory flow (FEF25-75%). The PEF and FEF25-75% recovered to some extent on completion of burning period, while PFTs like force vital capacity and force expiratory volume did not show a significant improvement. Due to greater concentration of fine particulates during rice crop-residue burning (CRB) than wheat CRB, there was a greater effect on pulmonary functions. The ACRB, in general, poses more effect on the lower and upper age groups in comparison to the middle age group subjects. All the analyses are well supported with large significant levels (p<0.05) obtained by using the paired t-test.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to M/s Taylor & Francis.
Subjects:	Environmental Science > Environmental Health Environmental Science > Environmental Health Environmental Science > Environmental Health Environmental Science > Environmental Health
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Depositing User:	Mr. Yogesh Joshi
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2019 08:44
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2019 08:44
URI:	http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4062

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