Screening of dysphagia in geriatrics

BMC Geriatrics

Table 7 Correlation between total score of EAT10 and sub-items and the total score of dysphagia manifestations

	Total score of EAT10
	R	P value
Dysphagia	0.569	< 0.001
Anorexia	0.657	< 0.001
Weight loss	0.484	< 0.001
Salivation	0.394	< 0.001
Accumulation of food in mouth	0.364	< 0.001
Sticking of food in throat	0.783	< 0.001
Nasal regurgitation of fluids	0.284	< 0.001
Cough on food	0.649	< 0.001
Cough on fluids	0.585	< 0.001
Need water to swallow	0.666	< 0.001
Need to multiple swallows	0.587	< 0.001
Need to cut food into small pieces	0.582	< 0.001
Total score of dysphagia manifestations	0.816	0.001

Non-significant P value > 0.05, Significant P value < 0.05, highly significant P value < 0.01
Table 7 shows that the total score of EAT10 has a significant positive correlation with all the sub-items with p values of < 0.001and the total score of dysphagia manifestations with p value of 0.001

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