Otolaryngology: Open Access
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Abstract

Voice disorders are described as effortful or difficulties in phonation and deviant voice qualities are very often associated with physical discomfort and disability. In the study we reviewed the medical records of all patients who attended the speech and language clinic at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from the period of 2007 till 2013. This is a retrospective, cross sectional study and 998 charts in our data analysis, we excluded patient based on repeated files, incomplete data and out of the intended study period i.e. 2007-2013. Data was extracted from medical charts from the quadramed medical system and reviewed for key variables such as (age, gender, occupation, smoking history and history of known related diseases). Gender was almost evenly distributed in the sample. The majority of the sample was non-smokers. The three top diagnoses were (Gastro-esophageal reflux disease 43.49%, Vocal fold cyst 11.824%, and Vocal fold paralysis 10.32%) The overall prevalence of voice disorder accounted for 37.37%. The prevalence of voice disorder showed significant difference between genders (P-value=0.0007) and between different age groups (P-value=<0.0001).

Biography

Feras Alkholaiwi is a demonstrator at Faculty of Medicine, Imam University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also Resident in Saudi Board Program , Otorhinoloaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. He is a graduate of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science. He has many research papers, with previous presentation in international otorhinolaryngology conference.

Email: feras_m_k@hotmail.com