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APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
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CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2023-0246
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airway morphology; breathlessness; computed tomography; dysanapsis; exercise; sex differences
In healthy adults, females have a lower airway-to-lung ratio and experience higher exertional dyspnoea compared to males. However, the study findings suggest that sex differences in airway size do not contribute significantly to the differences in exertional dyspnoea between males and females.
In healthy adults, airway-to-lung (i.e., dysanapsis) ratio is lower and dyspnoea during exercise at a given minute ventilation (VE) is higher in females than in males. We investigated the relationship between dysanapsis and sex on exertional dyspnoea in healthy adults. We hypothesized that females would have a smaller airway-to-lung ratio than males and that exertional dyspnoea would be associated with airway-to-lung ratio in males and females. We analyzed data from n =100 healthy never-smokers aged >= 40 years enrolled in the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (CanCOLD) study who underwent pulmonary function testing, a chest computed tomography scan, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The luminal area of the trachea, right main bronchus, left main bronchus, right upper lobe, bronchus intermedius, left upper lobe, and left lower lobe were 22%-37% smaller (all p < 0.001) and the airway-to-lung ratio (i.e., average large conducting airway diameter relative to total lung capacity) was lower in females than in males (0.609 +/- 0.070 vs. 0.674 +/- 0.082; p < 0.001). During exercise, there was a significant effect of VE, sex, and their interaction on dyspnoea (all p < 0.05), indicating that dyspnoea increased as a function of VE to a greater extent in females than in males. However, after adjusting for age and total lung capacity, there were no significant associations between airway-to-lung ratio and measures of exertional dyspnoea, regardless of sex (all r < 0.34; all p > 0.05). Our findings suggest that sex differences in airway size do not contribute to sex differences in exertional dyspnoea.
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