Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine

Table 3 Comparison between pairs of BMI groups according to percentages of predictive values of the Inspiratory Capacity and Expiratory Reserve Volume

From: The impact of abdominal adiposity measured by sonography on the pulmonary function of pre-menopausal females

Variable	Pairs of Groups
	Normal-weight	Normal-weight	Overweight
	vs.	vs.	vs.
	Overweight	Obese	Obese
%IC	0.01^a	0.02^a	NS
%ERV	0.04^a	0.001^a	0.04^a

^aStatistical significance on Mann–Whitney test; NS, non-significant, %IC, percentage of predictive Inspiratory Capacity, %ERV, percentage of predictive Expiratory Reserve Volume

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