Beta
ManageSearchChatDiscover
242884

Voice Evaluation in Patients with Hyperthyroidism

Article

Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

OverviewSimilar Items

Subjects

-

Tags

Phoniatric Sciences and medicine as a subpecialty of ENT

Abstract

Background: Several studies reported voice changes in patients with thyroid disorders.
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the voice characteristics of a group of patients with hyperthyroidism.
Patients and Methods: Twenty-one patients with clinical hyperthyroidism and Twenty-one healthy volunteers in the age range 24-55 years were subjected to voice assessment using both subjective (auditory perceptual assessment) and objective tools (acoustic and aerodynamic analyses).
Results: Despite the absence of perceptual voice changes in our patients with hyperthyroidism, subtle changes in the acoustic and aerodynamic parameters could be detected with a trend towards laryngeal dysfunction. Maximum phonation time and Harmonic/Noise ratio were significantly lower, and shimmer was significantly higher in hyperthyroid patients when compared to the reference group. Pitch and jitter were also higher in hyperthyroid patients, but the difference was not statistically significant.
Conclusion: These findings provide evidence that elevated levels of thyroid hormones potentially affect the phonatory function of the vocal folds.

DOI

10.21608/ejentas.2022.130488.1490

Keywords

Acoustic, aerodynamic, hyperthyroidism, voice

Authors

First Name

Omayma

Last Name

Afsah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Phoniatric Unit, ORL department, faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

omafsah@yahoo.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Khashaba

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Industrial medicine and Occupational health, Public health & Community medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Email

emankhashaba@mans.edu.eg

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Manal

Last Name

Nomir

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Clinical pathology Department, Students hospital, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

manalnomir@yahoo.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Abass

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

naglaaabass1234@yahoo.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Asser

Last Name

Elsaeed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Phoniatric Unit, ORL Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

asser.89@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Tamer

Last Name

Abou-Elsaad

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Phoniatric Unit, ORL Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

profdrtamer@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-8591-966X

Volume

23

Article Issue

23

Related Issue

30031

Issue Date

2022-01-01

Receive Date

2022-03-30

Publish Date

2022-01-01

Page Start

1

Page End

7

Print ISSN

2090-0740

Online ISSN

2090-3405

Article File

EJENTAS_Volume 23_Issue 23_Pages 1-7.pdf

PDF . 975.6kB

Link

https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/article_242884.html

Detail API

https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=242884

Order

44

Type

Original Article

Type Code

467

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences

Publication Link

https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Voice Evaluation in Patients with Hyperthyroidism

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023