Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EURASIAN JOURNAL OF PULMONOLOGY, cilt.11, sa.1, ss.13-17, 2009 (ESCI)
Worldwide, smoking is one of the preventable causes of death. It is a persistent health problem in Turkey and 43.5% of adult population is smoking. The aim was to study the effects of smoking on pulmonary function test, exercise capacity, dyspnea index and life quality. 139 cases, 83.5% of whom were men with mean age of 62 were evaluated; 36 cases (25.9%) were nonsmokers, 46 (33.1%) were smokers and 57 (41.0%) were ex-smokers. Spirometric measurements of smokers were found lower than that of both nonsmokers and ex-smokers. 6MWT distance, dyspnea index and oxygen saturation did not differentiate among nonsmokers, smokers and ex-smokers. Physical component score of SF36 life quality was not associated with smoking. Only mental component score of smokers was found lower than that of ex-smokers. 6MWT distance, dyspnea index, SpO(2) and life quality of cases whose exposure to smoking was < 50 package-year were not different than nonsmokers. 6MWT distance of cases whose exposure to smoking was >= 50 package-year was not different than nonsmokers and cases with = 50 package-year exposure to smoking; however, dyspnea index and SpO2 were found significantly high and significantly low respectively. There were losses in exercise capacity, dyspnea perception and life quality of smokers and these functional losses were associated with the level of exposure to smoking.