Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I would like to know if boys or girls have greater lung capacity ? Does it matter on your age how big your lung capacity is ? How does your lung capacity change and become bigger or smaller ? these are some questions that i would love to be answered as soon as posible .
thanks for your help
DTola

Hi,

I found some information to help you by searching "human lung capacity" and "human lung capcity age" in Google and similar search engines. There is some men vs women info in the Wikipedia article (which shows it's references at the bottom of their page). Wiki is generally not a good reference, but the page often helps lead in the right direction.

One of the most complete lung capacity websites I found was affiliated with lance Armstrong:

http://www.livestrong.com/lung-capacity/

And I also liked this original paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1357051/

I hope that helped you find what you were looking for.
Tonya

hi , i need to research who has greater lung capacity girls or boys ? any help .... i would apperciate it . thanks

Hi there,

I did answer in the first post on the other forum.

See it here:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... =25&t=9241

Was that helpful to you? Please let me know if you needed more assistance with that.

Thanks,
Tonya