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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Voice. 2011 Mar 25;25(6):709–713. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2010.10.002

Table 1. Selected Studies of MPT in Healthy Females and Males and Young and Older Adults.

Age Group Sex M SD Range
Older Adults [5] M (65-75 yrs) 14.6 5.9 -
F (66-93 yrs) 14.6 5.8 -
Older Adults [12] M (68-89 yrs) 18.1 6.6 10.0-37.2
F (66-93 yrs) 14.2 5.6 7.0-24.8
Older Adults [13] M (85-92 yrs) 13.0 - 7.0-12.0
F (85-96 yrs) 10.0 - 6.0-18.0
Young Adults [5] M & F 18.2 4.3 -
Young Adults [20] M 22.6 8.1 9.3-43.3
F 15.2 5.0 6.2-28.4
Young Adults [21] M 34.6 - 15.0-62.3*
F 25.7 - 14.3-40.4*
*

The ranges in this study are only from the “Critical Region,” that is, only the values that fell within the normal population defined by the authors (at a 5% level of significance).

This table presents selected studies of MPT previously characterized by Kent et al (6) in a review article.