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J Appl Physiol 75: 1467-1470, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 75, Issue 4 1467-1470, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of lung volume maintenance during sleep in nocturnal asthma

R. J. Martin, J. Pak and C. G. Irvin
Department of Medicine, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80206.

Previous studies have shown that lung volume decreases and airway resistance increases during sleep in patients with nocturnal asthma. To determine whether the fall in lung volume per se causes the overnight decrement in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and/or increase in bronchial responsiveness, we investigated the effect of preventing this nocturnal decrease in lung volume. The mean volume change on a baseline night was -16.3 +/- 1.6% from presleep values and on the volume maintenance night +7.1 +/- 3.0% (P = 0.0001). However, this maintenance of lung volume did not alter the overnight decrement in FEV1 (-29.6 +/- 5.2% baseline vs. -30.2 +/- 5.8% volume maintenance). Similarly, the increase in bronchial responsiveness was also unaltered from baseline to volume maintenance nights, with presleep provocative concentrations of methacholine producing a 20% decrement in FEV1 of 0.28 +/- 0.15 vs. 0.22 +/- 0.7 mg/ml, respectively, and postsleep values of 0.07 +/- 0.03 vs. 0.04 +/- 0.02 mg/ml, respectively. Thus the fall in lung volume during sleep in the nocturnal asthmatic patient is a result, not a cause, of the overnight worsening of lung function.


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