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Descriptive statistics for measures of pharyngeal area at maximum constriction and at rest, expressed as percentage of the squared C2–C4 reference scalar.
| Parameter | Consistency | M | SD | 95% confidence interval |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower bound | Upper bound | ||||
| Pharyngeal area at maximum constriction | Thin | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.2 |
| Slightly thick | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 1.3 | |
| Mildly thick | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.8 | |
| Moderately thick | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.0 | |
| Extremely thick | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
| Pharyngeal area at rest | 58 | 16 | 53 | 64 | |