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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2012 Jun;44(6):1043–1048. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182444c4b

Table 2.

Pulmonary Function

FVC
(% pred)		 FEV1
(% pred)		 FEV1/FVC
(%)		 PEF
(% pred)		 PMVV
(L/min)		 TLC
(% pred)		 FRC
(% TLC)		 RV
(% pred)		 RV/TLC
(%)
Women 103 ± 15 100 ± 12 84 ± 6 101 ± 19 118 ± 19 100 ± 11 54 ± 7 96 ± 20 29 ± 6
Men 103 ± 12 104 ± 8 84 ± 6 113 ± 12 176 ± 24 102 ± 12 48 ± 9 91 ± 26 22 ± 5
P value ns ns ns ns < 0.0001 ns ns ns ns

Values are mean ± SD. FVC, forced vital capacity; % pred, percent of predicted; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in one second; PEF, peak expiratory flow; PMVV, predicted maximal voluntary ventilation calculated from FEV1 (PMVV=37.5*FEV1); TLC, total lung capacity; FRC, functional residual capacity (expressed as % of TLC); RV, residual volume; and ns, non-significant. Predicted values for spirometry and lung volumes were based on the norms of Knudson et al. (21, 22), and Goldman and Becklake (17), respectively. ns, non-significant.