A longitudinal study of pulmonary distensibility in healthy adults

Respiration Physiology
H J Colebatch, C K Ng

Abstract

To assess changes in pulmonary distensibility with age in a longitudinal study, 34 healthy non-smoking adults were examined on two or more occasions over an interval of 6.0 +/- 1.8 yr (mean +/- SD). Exponential analysis of static pressure-volume data obtained during deflation of the lungs gave the exponent, K, an index of distensibility. Total lung capacity (TLC) was measured in a body plethysmograph and increased over the interval of study. The results were compared with findings in a previous cross-sectional study of 124 subjects. At entry into the longitudinal study, mean values for K and static recoil pressure were similar to those obtained for subjects in the cross-sectional study. Over the interval of study, K increased more in subjects with higher values for K (older subjects) supporting the use of a logarithmic analysis of K on age. Using a statistical model which allowed for a variable number of observations and for variance of K between subjects, the increase in ln K with age was similar to that found in the cross-sectional study. From the relationship between K and the average size of airspaces (mean linear intercept, Lm) demonstrated previously in excised lungs, it is shown that the reported increase in Lm with age ...Continue Reading

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Apr 1, 1992·Respiration Physiology·H J Colebatch, C K Ng
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