Voice Feature Characteristic in Morbid Obese Population

Cunha, Maria Gabriela Bernardo da; Passerotti, Gustavo Haruo; Weber, Raimar; Zilberstein, Bruno; Cecconello, Ivan

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“…Therefore, it is useful for the voice clinician to understand these interdependencies. Specific factors that may be potentially related to voice production/physiology are body weight and body fat volume (1)(2)(3)(4) . However, the voice literature regarding the impact of body weight on selected parameters of vocal physiology and phonation is sparse.…”

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Do body mass index and fat volume influence vocal quality, phonatory range, and aerodynamics in females?

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PURPOSE: To analyze the impact of body weight and body fat volume on selected parameters of vocal quality, phonatory range, and aerodynamics in females. METHODS: Based on measurements of body mass index in combination with body fat volume, 29 normophonic female subjects were classified as normal weight, underweight, and obese. Voice quality was investigated via auditory-perceptual ratings of breathiness, roughness, and overall dysphonia severity, via various acoustic measures and a multiparametric index. Phonatory range performance was examined using selected measures of the voice range profile and speech range profile. Measures of vocally relevant aerodynamics included vital capacity (i.e., VC), expected VC, phonation quotient, and maximum phonation time (i.e., MPT). RESULTS: Significant differences between the three weight groups were found across several measures of intensity, VC, MPT, and shimmer. As compared to the other groups, significantly higher values of maximum and minimum intensity levels, as well as sound pressure level during habitual running speech were observed for the obese group (all p-values<0.05); whereas, the underweight group had significantly lower values for VC and ratio of expected to measured VC (p-values<0.01). Furthermore, underweight subjects differed significantly as compared to normal weight subjects with lower MPT (p=0.025) and higher lowest-F0 (p=0.035). Finally the obese group showed significantly lower shimmer values than the normal weight subjects (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Body weight and body fat volume appear to influence select objective measures of voice quality, vocal aerodynamics, and phonatory range performance.

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“…Of course, a larger number of studies on these aspects is required, as these results may be due to pneumo-phono-articulatory incoordination, which is common in children 7 , or may even be found to be occasional, since there is no support in the literature with other works that have specifically researched the MPT/ė/ MPT/e/ in the population of the same age group. Moreover, the comparison with other links , probably due to reduced subglottic airway pressure 8 .…”

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“…Obese patients' voices were characterized as hoarse (62%), breathy (27%) and with instability to phonation (44%). The authors attributed these characteristics to low MPT values found in obese patients, that would cause irregular vibration of the vocal folds due to reduced subglottic pressure, resulting in a hoarse and breathy voice 8 .…”

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“…It was also observed that individuals suffering from morbid obesity exhibited very low levels of MPT, which may be related to their excessive weight that would lead to the accumulation of fat in the larynx, causing adjustment difficulty between the larynx myoelastic forces and lung aerodynamic for an adequate voice production 8 .…”

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“…Anthropometric differences, in turn, can influence respiratory performance and voice quality due to the accumulation of adipose tissue in the nasopharynx, oropharynx, larynx, tongue and soft palate and there may be loss in performance and voice quality 8 . In addition, the accumulation of adipose tissue in the abdominal and chest wall by producing excessive weight on the diaphragm can change its movement and breathing pattern, compromising voice quality.…”

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Tempo máximo fonatório de /e/ e /ė/ não-vozeado e sua relação com índice de massa corporal e sexo em crianças

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RESUMO Objetivo: caracterizar e associar tempo máximo fonatório do /e/ vozeado e de /e/ não vozeado (/ė/), índice de massa corporal e sexo em crianças. Métodos: estudo transversal observacional analítico de campo e quantitativo do qual participaram 102 crianças com idades entre oito e 12 anos (média de 9,66 anos), sendo 53 (51,96%) meninas e 49 (48,04%) meninos. Os sujeitos passaram por triagem auditiva, avaliação antropométrica e coleta dos tempos máximos fonatórios de /e/ e /ė/. Os dados foram analisados por meio dos testes não-paramétricos Mann-Whitney e Correlação de Spearman, com nível de significância de 5%. Resultados: não houve diferença dos tempos máximos fonatórios de /e/, /ė/ e relação ė/e em função do índice de massa corporal e faixa etária, porém crianças do sexo masculino apresentaram tempo máximo fonatório de /e/ significantemente maior do que as meninas. Não foi encontrada correlação entre tempo máximo fonatório e índice de massa corporal. Conclusão: não houve diferença entre tempo máximo fonatório de /ė/, /e/ e relação ė/e, conforme faixa etária e índice de massa corporal, bem como o índice de massa corporal e os tempos máximos fonatórios não se correlacionaram, evidenciando homogeneidade entre as medidas dentro do grupo, sem influência do índice de massa corporal sobre os tempos máximos fonatórios. Em relação ao sexo, os meninos apresentaram tempo máximo fonatório de /e/ maior do que as meninas e apenas as crianças de oito anos apresentaram os TMF tempo máximo fonatório dentro do esperado.

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Voice Feature Characteristic in Morbid Obese Population

Abstract: The voices of individuals with morbid obesity are different of the voice of nonobese people and demonstrate significant changes in vocal characteristics.

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Do body mass index and fat volume influence vocal quality, phonatory range, and aerodynamics in females?

Do body mass index and fat volume influence vocal quality, phonatory range, and aerodynamics in females?

Tempo máximo fonatório de /e/ e /ė/ não-vozeado e sua relação com índice de massa corporal e sexo em crianças

Fundamental Frequency and Dentofacial Anomalies

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