Abstract
Coronary artery disease and hypertension are major health problems in today’s world. Recently lot of interest has been generated regarding the possible systemic and pulmonary effects of the pervasive low grade inflammation that is present in coronary artery disease and hypertension. Many studies have objectively demonstrated undisputable evidence of airflow limitation in a setting of CAD and hypertension accompanied by a low FEV1, FVC and FEV1/FVC ratio. In our study, we compared the spirometric indices of 100 patients of CAD and/or hypertension to healthy subjects. It was found that 25% of such patients suffered from undiagnosed airflow limitation as compared to only 2% in healthy patients. The difference was significant. Therefore we recommend that spirometric screening is an easy, non invasive and inexpensive tool to diagnose undetected obstructive airway disesase in such patients and treat the same.
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Corresponding Author
Biswajit Majumder
Address-181B/1Kabi Guru Sarani, Kolkata
Email: majumderbiswajit1972@gmail.com
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i11.42
