Immunological status and antiretroviral therapyEssential trace metals have a wide range of benefits among HIVpositive patients such as increased survival, improved oxidative stress, reduced hospitalization, increased weight gain, improved birth outcomes and infant immune status and reduced mother-to-child
This study describes the association between percent body fat and pulmonary function among apparently normal twenty male children tidal volume aged 4 years and twenty male children aged 10 years in Ogbomoso. The mean functional residual capacity of the lung in male children aged 10 years was significantly higher than in male children aged 4 years (P<0.05). The mean tidal volume-functional residual capacity ratio were 0.32 ± 0.04 (SD) and 0.23 ±0.02(SD) in male children aged 4 years and 10 years, respectively. There was no significant difference between the mean tidal volume -functional residual capacity ratio in both age groups (P > 0.05). The mean percent body fat were 11.74% and 6.76% in male children age 4 years and 10 years, respectively. The mean percent body fat was significantly higher in male children aged 4 years than male children aged 10 years (P<0.001). There was a weak nonsignificant positive correlation between the functional residual capacity of the lung and percent body fat (r = 0.30; P= 0.05) in male children aged 10 years while a high significant positive correlation was observed between the functional residual capacity of the lung and percent body fat (r= -0.68;P=0.05) in male aged 4 years. The fact that the correlation between percent body fat and tidal volume-functional residual capacity ratio was high and s ignificant (r = 0.76;P=0.001) suggests that the ratio might serve as an excellent marker to differentiate the nutritional state in both age groups in non-disease states (Afr. J.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.