Introduction:Obesity is becoming one of the serious public health problems of modern world with rapidly changing lifestyles involving consumption of high calorie foods with decreased physical activities. Spirometery is the initial screening tool for pulmonary diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of deranged BMI, pulmonary function tests and correlation between BMI and pulmonary function test. Material and methods:This study was done on 300 female subjects in the age group of 18-25 years including 150 from rural area and 150 from urban area of North Indian populations. Various anthropometric measurements (height, weight) were taken. BMI was calculated. Parameters of pulmonary function tests such as FVC, FEV1,FEV1/FVC,FEF25-75%,PEFR were measured by spirometer. Results:The mean value of BMI in rural and urban population is (23.33±4.75) and (22.55±4.57) respectively. On comparing Pulmonary function parameters of both the population, all the parameters were significantly higher in urban population except FEV1/FVC. Conclusion:Prevalence of deranged BMI was significantly higher in rural population. Negative correlation found between BMI with Pulmonary function tests in both population except FEV1 and FVC which showed positive correlation in urban population.

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