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Hall-Landers RJ, Morton-Jones ME, Plexico LW, Spray GJ, Sandage MJ. First-Generation OTC Antihistamine Use and Voice Function in Individuals with Allergic Rhinitis: A Preliminary Report of Clinically Impactful Findings. J Voice 2024:S0892-1997(24)00184-X. [PMID: 38972776 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2024] [Revised: 06/14/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/09/2024]
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PURPOSE The primary goal of this investigation was to characterize the effect of the first-generation, over-the-counter antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton on laryngeal structure and function in a previously unstudied population - individuals diagnosed with allergic rhinitis who routinely take over-the-counter antihistamines and deny the experience or diagnosis of voice disorder. STUDY DESIGN Prospective within-participant multimodality repeated measures design. METHODS Eight consented participants (seven females, one male) previously diagnosed with allergic rhinitis and without history of voice disorder who routinely took over-the-counter antihistamines completed the study. Volunteers completed the following measures before and 2hours after antihistamine administration: perceptual vocal function measures, phonation threshold pressure (PTP), acoustic measures, and laryngeal imaging. All pre- and post-administration data were descriptively analyzed for clinically significant change. RESULTS No clinically significant differences were identified for any acoustic or aerodynamic measures taken. Analyses of laryngeal imaging data indicated that all participants had evidence of mucosal changes in one or more of the following parameters: increased vascularity, mucus in the anterior commissure, and vocal fold color changes, all of which are consistent with prior descriptions of allergy larynx. CONCLUSIONS Empirical study of laryngeal appearance in individuals diagnosed with allergic rhinitis, affirmed clinical observations of laryngeal tissue changes consistent with allergy larynx. Stable PTP suggests potential vocal fold cover adaptations from routine use of over-the-counter antihistamines that may buffer the typical desiccating effect on voice function observed in prior studies of healthy individuals.
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
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Heller Murray E, Yucel R. Longitudinal Evaluation of Cepstral Peak Prominence in Children. J Voice 2024:S0892-1997(24)00138-3. [PMID: 38760251 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the acoustic measure of cepstral peak prominence changes during typical development in children 2-7. METHODS Data were retrospectively analyzed from the Arizona Child Acoustic Database Repository in this longitudinal cohort study. The Repository contains longitudinal data recordings from 63 total children between 2 and 7 years of age. Thirty-one children met the inclusion criteria for the current analysis (at least five time points of usable speech data, no history of speech or language difficulties, no significant dysphonia, and were monolingual speakers of American English). Cepstral peak prominence measures were calculated in Praat for each child, at each timepoint. Additional acoustic measures of vocal fundamental frequency, vocal intensity, and stimuli length were also calculated. These measures were chosen as previous work has shown they may impact cepstral peak prominence values. RESULTS Linear mixed-effects regression models examined the relationship between cepstral peak prominence and age, after controlling for vocal fundamental frequency, vocal intensity, and stimuli length. Within-participant effects of age were found, indicating a trajectory change in which cepstral peak prominence increases with age in this population. This positive relationship between a cepstral peak prominence and age was nonlinear, with a steeper slope between age and cepstral peak prominence after 5 years of age. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study to examine the typical developmental trajectory of cepstral peak prominence children between 2 and 7 years, a critical period of vocal development. Cepstral peak prominence increased with age, suggesting an increase in periodicity of vocal fold vibration that coincides with the significant vocal fold structural changes occurring during this time. Outcomes present important normative information on vocal development, essential for effectively understanding the difference between what vocal changes are part of normative development and what changes indicate a voice disorder.
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- Elizabeth Heller Murray
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Orbelo DM, Charney SA, Renkert E, Pietrowicz M, David Aka, Bayan SL, Ishikawa K. Vocal Effort and Acoustic Analysis of Gargle Phonation Versus Water Swallow in Patients With Muscle Tension Dysphonia: A Clinical Trial. J Voice 2024:S0892-1997(24)00057-2. [PMID: 38519331 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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PURPOSE To determine the effects of gargle phonation (GP) on self-perceived vocal improvement, vocal effort, acoustic parameters, and speech rate in patients with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD). We hypothesized that GP would improve voice, reduce phonatory effort, and alter acoustic and speech measures. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized, single-blind cross-over clinical trial METHODS: Thirty-four participants (26 females, 8 males; average age 53 years) who were diagnosed with MTD completed the Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10) and were assigned three study conditions: Baseline (B), GP, and Water Swallow (WS; sham), presented in one of two counterbalanced orders B-WS-GP (WS1st) or B-GP-WS (GP1st). Participants recorded stimuli from the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) and rated their perceived vocal effort and vocal improvement. F0, vocal intensity, cepstral peak prominence (CPP), and speaking rate were measured. RESULTS Average VHI-10 scores by group were 16 (min/max 2-29) for WS1st and 15 (min/max 3-40) for GP1st. About 73.5% reported more vocal improvement after GP, 17.65% after WS, and 8.8% noted no difference between conditions. Reduced effort was reported after GP, compared to B (P < 0.001) and WS (P = 0.005). Lower effort was also reported after the WS condition, compared to B (P = 0.011). Key acoustic findings included an increase in F0 after GP for sustained /i/ for females. CPP was significantly higher for females reading CAPE-V sentences after GP, when GP preceded WS, compared to B (P = 0.004) and WS (P = 0.003). Speech rate was faster for females after GP versus B (P = 0.029). CONCLUSIONS GP may be beneficial in the treatment of MTD. CPP may be a useful marker for vocal improvement after GP for women with mild MTD. Further studies would benefit from having more male participants and those with moderate and severe MTD.
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- Diana M Orbelo
- Mayo Clinic Department of Otolaryngology, Rochester, Minnesota.
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- Mayo Clinic Department of Otolaryngology, Phoenix, Arizona
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- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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- Mayo Clinic Department of Otolaryngology, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Mayo Clinic Department of Otolaryngology, Rochester, Minnesota
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- University of Kentucky, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Lexington, Kentucky
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Wei M, Zhang N, Du J, Zhang S, Li L, Wang W. Effect of Smoking on Cepstral Parameters. J Voice 2024:S0892-1997(23)00416-2. [PMID: 38310079 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Smoking exerts certain damage to the voice, which affects sound characteristics. This study explored the effects of smoking, smoking time, and smoking amount on cepstral parameters. We collected the acoustic signals of sustained vowels in 301 participants (135 smokers and 166 nonsmokers). The cepstral parameters, including cepstral peak prominence (CPP), CPP standard deviation (CPP SD), low to high-frequency spectral ratio (L/H), low to high-frequency spectral ratio standard deviation (L/H SD), and voice disorder cepstral/spectral index of dysphonia (CSID), of the sustained vowels were investigated through the analysis of dysphonia in speech and voice (ADSV) application. The effects of smoking on these parameters were explored. The influences of smoking time and smoking amount on cepstral parameters were also analyzed by multiple linear regression. The CPP and L/H values in the smoking group were lower than those in the nonsmoking group (CPP: P < 0.001, L/H: P = 0.033) and negatively correlated with smoking time (CPP: R2 = 0.3828, P < 0.0001; L/H: R2 = 0.02996, P = 0.0447) and smoking amount (CPP: R2 < 0.4526, P < 0.0001; L/H: R2 = 0.08823, P = 0.00005). The CPP SD, L/H SD, and CSID values in the smoking group were higher than those in the nonsmoking group (CPP SD: P = 0.006, L/H SD: P = 0.034, CSID: P < 0.001) and positively correlated with smoking time (CPP SD: R2 = 0.03648, P = 0.0265, L/H SD: R2 = 0.09121, P = 0.0004, CSID: R2 = 0.01247, P = 0.1972) and smoking amount (CPP SD: R2 = 0.05495, P = 0.0062, L/H SD: R2 = 0.1316, P < 0.0001, CSID: R2 = 0.03851, P = 0.0225). Compared with other cepstral parameters, smoking time and smoking volume had the greatest impact on CPP (smoking time: R2 = 0.385, smoking amount: R2 = 0.443). This study confirmed that smoking has a significant effect on cepstral parameters. Compared with the cepstral parameters of nonsmokers, an increase in smoking time and smoking volume increases the abnormality of the cepstral parameters of smokers.
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- Mei Wei
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine,Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300192 Tianjin, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Quality Control Centre of Otolaryngology, Tianjin, China.
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