ArticleJournal of dental sciences2022
Effect of decreased tongue pressure on dysphagia and survival rate in elderly people requiring long-term care.
Article in Journal of dental sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07080996 (Effect of Biofeedback Tongue Strengthening Program on Tongue Pressure and Swallowing Performance in Elderly With Abnormal Tongue Pressure), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effect of Biofeedback Tongue Strengthening Program on Tongue Pressure and Swallowing Performance in Elderly With Abnormal Tongue Pressure
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Relationship between tooth loss and tongue pressure and the effectiveness of removable denture for older people requiring long-term care.Journal of dental sciences · 2026Article
- Association Between Phase Angle and Tongue Pressure in Older Inpatients with Connective Tissue Diseases.Dysphagia · 2025Article
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- Association between malnutrition and low tongue pressure in community-dwelling older people: a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Oral function status of older patients seeking dental implant treatment.International journal of implant dentistry · 2024Article
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- Effect of oral function and postoperative eating patterns on salivary bacterial counts in gastrointestinal tract surgery patients: A preliminary study.Journal of dental sciences · 2024Article
- Machine Learning Prediction of Tongue Pressure in Elderly Patients with Head and Neck Tumor: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Oral Health-Related Factors Associated with Dysphagia Risk among Older, Healthy, Community-Dwelling Korean Adults: A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Factors Associated With Swallowing Function Among Physicians in Their 50s and 60s: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2023Article
- Enhancing Spiritual Well-Being, Physical Activity, and Happiness in Hospitalized Older Adult Patients with Swallowing Difficulties: A Comparative Study of Thickeners and Swallowing Exercises.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Improvement in Tongue Pressure Precedes Improvement in Dysphagia in Dermatomyositis.Clinics and practice · 2022Article
- Number of Bacteria in Saliva in the Perioperative Period and Factors Associated with Increased Numbers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- From Bench to Bedside: Evaluating a Low-Cost Tongue Pressure Device Prototype for Clinical and Community Use.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
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Abstract
Background/purpose: Tongue pressure plays an important role in swallowing function. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether decreased tongue pressure is associated with dysphagia and the development of pneumonia in the elderly requiring long-term care. Materials and methods: Tongue pressure measurement and swallowing videoendoscopic (VE) examination were performed in 60 hospitalized elderly people (33 males and 27 females, with an average age of 84.3 years) to investigate the relationship with the clinical course. Factors related with dysphagia was analyzed by Fisher's exact test and one-way ANOVA, followed by multivariate logistic regression. The relationship between each variable and survival were analyzed by cox regression. Results: Twenty-one patients had dysphagia by VE examination. Multivariate analysis showed that smaller BMI and reduced tongue pressure were significantly correlated with dysphagia. Smaller number of remaining teeth and dysphagia were significantly related to pneumonia-related death. No patients with tongue pressure of larger than 20 kpa died by pneumonia within one year, while in those with tongue pressure of smaller than 20 kpa, one-year cumulative survival rate by pneumonia was 44.3%. Conclusion: Decreased tongue pressure was significantly associated with dysphagia and may increase the risk of pneumonia-related death in the elderly requiring long-term care.
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