373617

Assessment of Voice Before and After Bariatric Surgery in Morbid Obesity

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Phoniatric Sciences and medicine as a subpecialty of ENT

Abstract

Background: The Voice communicates a speaker's social standing, psychological attributes, and emotional state. Obesity is a health problem that has an impact on several bodily functions. By producing abnormal fat deposition in the abdomen and upper airways, obesity alters voice qualities.Objectives: In this study, We assess the impact of bariatric surgery on patients' voices who are morbidly obese.Patients and Methods: In this prospective, longitudinal study, 50 patients with planned bariatric surgery were examined pre-operatively and 6 months after surgery. The preoperative evaluation included Body Mass Index, Neck Circumference, Auditory Perceptual Assessment (APA), Voice Handicap Index (VHI) questionniare, laryngoscopic examination and acoustic analysis. Six months after surgery, patients were re-evaluated using the same pre-surgical data collection methods.Results: This study's findings revealed statistically significant differences in phonasthenia and almost of acoustic parameters mainly jitter, harmonic to noise ratio and maximum phonation time. Furthermore, there were significant differences in the voice handicap index.Conclusion: It is possible to conclude that an individual suffering from morbid obesity has significantly different vocal features. This study suggests that successful weight loss after bariatric surgery may influence voice acoustic characteristics.

DOI

10.21608/ejentas.2024.269339.1727

Keywords

Bariatric surgery, Dysphonia, jitter, shimmer

Authors

First Name

Marowa

Last Name

Abd El Wahab

MiddleName

Mohsen

Affiliation

minia university

Email

marwamohsen246@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-2793-5696

First Name

Zienab

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Khalaf

Affiliation

minia university

Email

dr_zienab@yahoo.com

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Orcid

-

First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

minia university

Email

doaamohammad2916@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Kamel

MiddleName

Khalafallah

Affiliation

minia university

Email

mohamed_khalaf@mu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Alshimaa

Last Name

Dakhly

MiddleName

Abdelmenem

Affiliation

minia university

Email

dr.fofa_h@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Wafaa

Last Name

Abdelhakeem

MiddleName

Helmy

Affiliation

minia university

Email

dr.fofahma@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0001-6226-9548

Volume

25

Article Issue

25

Related Issue

46615

Issue Date

2024-03-01

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2024-02-11

Publish Date

2024-03-01

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1

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7

Print ISSN

2090-0740

Online ISSN

2090-3405

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https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/article_373617.html

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467

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Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences

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

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Assessment of Voice Before and After Bariatric Surgery in Morbid Obesity

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Created At

23 Dec 2024