OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine the prevalence of pediatric voice and swallowing problems in the United States. METHODS The 2012 National Health Interview Survey pediatric voice and language module was analyzed, identifying children reporting a voice or swallowing problem in the preceding 12 months. In addition to demographic data, specific data regarding visits to health care professionals f...

BACKGROUND Swallowing evaluation of older individuals with coronary disease referred to heart surgery. AIM To identify the characteristics of the swallowing function in older individuals referred to myocardial revascularization surgery (MR), using an evaluating protocol composed by a water test, cervical auscultation and pulse oximetry. METHOD The Assessment Protocol for Dysphagia Risk thro...

The cervical auscultation refers to the observation and analysis of sounds or vibrations captured during swallowing using either a stethoscope or acoustic/vibratory detectors. Microphones and accelerometers have recently become two common sensors used in modern cervical auscultation methods. There are open questions about whether swallowing signals recorded by these two sensors provide unique o...

We assessed feeding-related developmental anomalies in the LgDel mouse model of chromosome 22q11 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), a common developmental disorder that frequently includes perinatal dysphagia--debilitating feeding, swallowing and nutrition difficulties from birth onward--within its phenotypic spectrum. LgDel pups gain significantly less weight during the first postnatal weeks, and ha...

INTRODUCTION Swallowing disorders are common in the elderly but its prevalence is often underestimated. They can result in increased morbidity and mortality. METHODS This article summarises the findings of selected published papers in major international journals indexed on Medline on swallowing using the key words--swallowing, dysphagia, aged, geriatrics and deglutition. RESULTS There are ...

OBJECTIVES The first democratic government elected in South Africa in 1994 inherited huge inequities in health status and health provision across all sections of the population. This study set out to assess the impact of the new government's commitment to address these inequities and implement policies to improve population health in general and address inequalities in health care in particular...

Background Pharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and clinically relevant symptom associated with poor nutrition intake, reduced quality of life, aspiration pneumonia. Despite this, effective behavioral treatment approaches are rare. Objective The objective this study was to verify if 4 week expiratory muscle strength training can improve pharyngeal the short long term abl...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Swallowing dysfunction (dysphagia) is common and disabling after acute stroke, but its impact on long-term prognosis for potential complications and the recovery from swallowing dysfunction remain uncertain. We aimed to prospectively study the prognosis of swallowing function over the first 6 months after acute stroke and to identify the important independent clinical and...

OBJECTIVE We examined the characteristics of dysphagia in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a hereditary neuromuscular disease causing weakness of limb, facial, and oropharyngeal muscles via a videofluoroscopic swallowing study, and investigated the plausibility of using these outcome measures for quantitative analysis. METHODS A videofluoroscopic swallowing study was performed on 111 conse...

CONTEXT The swallowing behavior is affected by age and possibly by gender. However, the interaction of the effects of age and gender on swallowing is not completely known. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the possibility of interaction of gender and age on human swallowing behavior. METHOD Swallowing was evaluated in 89 healthy subjects by the water swallowing test, 43 men and 46 women aged 20-40 yea...