Table 4.

Results for the correlation test between the contraction time of the muscles assessed in the sEMG during swallowing of pudding consistency and arm muscle circumference (AMC).

Variables	Swallowing time (s)
	Left masseter		Right masseter		Suprahyoid muscles		Orbicularis oris
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
AMC	− 0.67	0.003*	− 0.73	0.001*	− 0.75	0.001*	− 0.56	0.020*

p < 0.05—Spearman's correlation coefficient.

r correlation coefficient.

*Statistically significant correlation (p < 0.05).