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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2010 Dec;120(12):2367–2373. doi: 10.1002/lary.21150

Table 2.

Summary data for the tongue base. Pmax = maximum tongue base pressure; r = correlation coefficient. Correlation coefficients (r) and p-values are provided for Pearson product moment tests.

Variable 1 ml 5 ml 10 ml 20 ml r p-value
Pmax (mmHg) 337 ± 196 315 ± 170 267 ± 132 251 ± 110 −0.189 0.199
Rise time (s) 0.184 ± 0.0045 0.202 ± 0.042 0.205 ± 0.035 0.201 ± 0.024 0.078 0.599
Rise rate (mmHg/s) 1925 ± 1203 1541 ± 713 1344 ± 788 1259 ± 660 −0.221 0.132
Duration (s) 0.534 ± 0.129 0.650 ± 0.157 0.561 ± 0.091 0.592 ± 0.100 0.125 0.396