Is There a Relationship between Voice Quality and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and Cumulative Percentage of Time Spent at Saturations below Ninety Percent: Voice Analysis in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Voice Analysis
2.2. Statistical Method
3. Results
3.1. Voice Analysis
Aerodynamic Voice Analysis
3.2. Acoustic Voice Analysis
3.2.1. Vowel Sound /α:/
3.2.2. Vowel Sound /i:/
3.3. VHI-10 Questionnaire for Subjective Voice Analysis
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Vowel Sound /α:/ | Mean f0 (Hz) | Mean Jitter% | Mean Shimmer% | Mean HNR (dB) | ||||
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Min | Max | Min | Max | Min | Max | Min | Max | |
1st group | 179 | 0.23 * p ≤ 0.00 | 4.58 * p ≤ 0.00, **** p ≤ 0.032 | 20.66 * p ≤ 0.00 | ||||
79 | 308 | 0.09 | 0.44 | 0.97 | 17.43 | 8.87 | 30.11 | |
2nd group | 140 | 0.22 ** p ≤ 0.00 | 9.35 ** p ≤ 0.002 | 14.60 ** p ≤ 0.018 | ||||
76 | 289 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 1.6 | 20.60 | 6.51 | 28.11 | |
3rd group | 156 | 0.86 *** p ≤ 0.002 | 10.28 *** p ≤ 0.007 | 14.60 *** p ≤ 0.018 | ||||
76 | 245 | 0.16 | 4.76 | 0.88 | 23.97 | 0.31 | 30.39 | |
4th group | 134 | 3.24 | 17.06 | 7.04 | ||||
81 | 320 | 0.26 | 9.85 | 10.09 | 25.84 | 0.10 | 15.96 |
Vowel Sound /i:/ | Mean f0 (Hz) | Mean Jitter% | Mean Shimmer% | Mean HNR (dB) | ||||
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Min | Max | Min | Max | Min | Max | Min | Max | |
1 st Group | 4.58 * p ≤ 0.028, *** p ≤ 0.015 | 0.25 * p ≤ 0.04 | 5.08 * p ≤ 0.00, **** p ≤ 0.041 | 22.76 * p ≤ 0.00, *** p ≤ 0.032 | ||||
100 | 322 | 0.10 | 0.74 | 0.60 | 21.06 | 8.37 | 32.82 | |
2 nd Group | 137 | 0.46 ** p ≤ 0.013 | 11.09 | 15.07 | ||||
79 | 296 | 0.18 | 1.70 | 0.79 | 24.54 | 3.42 | 32.03 | |
3 rd Group | 161 | 1.18 | 12.10 | 15.61 | ||||
79 | 275 | 0.12 | 5.52 | 0.91 | 24.77 | 0.49 | 35.12 | |
4 th Group | 131 | 2.08 | 17.55 | 8.59 | ||||
86 | 238 | 0.11 | 8.66 | 6.63 | 26.40 | 0.73 | 17.68 |
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Yaslıkaya, S.; Geçkil, A.A.; Birişik, Z. Is There a Relationship between Voice Quality and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and Cumulative Percentage of Time Spent at Saturations below Ninety Percent: Voice Analysis in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients. Medicina 2022, 58, 1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58101336
Yaslıkaya S, Geçkil AA, Birişik Z. Is There a Relationship between Voice Quality and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and Cumulative Percentage of Time Spent at Saturations below Ninety Percent: Voice Analysis in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients. Medicina. 2022; 58(10):1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58101336
Chicago/Turabian StyleYaslıkaya, Serhat, Ayşegül Altıntop Geçkil, and Zehra Birişik. 2022. "Is There a Relationship between Voice Quality and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and Cumulative Percentage of Time Spent at Saturations below Ninety Percent: Voice Analysis in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients" Medicina 58, no. 10: 1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58101336