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Bollettino della Societa italiana di biologia sperimentale

Boll.Soc.Ital.Biol.Sper.

1981/

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The authors had intended to study functional respiratory patterns of a sponge-divers' group from the Island of Kalymnos (Greece). Such a group constitutes a very homogeneous sample for dietary habits and underwater activity, handed down from father to son. Some of these sponge-divers dive while holding their breath; others use 'narghile', a special apparatus consisting in a nosepiece connected to an air compressor placed in the boat. As their activity is continuous and prolonged for several months in the years with repeated dives from dawn to dusk and, because air output of narghile is nearly constant, it is possible to deduce that in these subjects functional respiratory modifications occur. In evaluating three groups (skindivers, narghile-divers and control-group) no particular changes of static and dynamic pulmonary volumes were noted. Only Expiratory Reserve Volume is higher in spite to Knudson's values; this is probably due to psychological and emotional factors.

Greece, human cell, lung function, major clinical study, normal human, respiratory system

VALUTAZIONI DEI PARAMETRI DI FUNZIONALITA RESPIRATORIA NEI PESCATORI DI SPUGNE DELL'ISOLA DI KALIMNOS (GRECIA)

Embase; MEDLINE

Embase

Data,P. G., De Sanctis,S., Cervone,M., D'Ancona,M. L.

Ist. Fisiol. Um., Univ. Chieti

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1981