Table 2.

Latency of the swallowing response in elderly and young groups

	Elderly group (n = 16; age 81.6 ± 9.39 years)	Young group (n = 10; age 21.6 ± 0.52 years)
Pre-intervention LSR (s)	2.04 ± 1.60	1.27 ± 0.27
Post-intervention LSR (s)	1.47 ± 1.05*	1.07 ± 0.20**
Follow-up LSR (s)	1.99 ± 1.801	1.04 ± 0.10**

LSR the latency of the swallowing response

Bootstrap test (vs pre-intervention LSR for each group): * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05

¹n=15