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Abstract

In this study, we aimed to investigate the influences of age and gender on nasal airway patency, as measured by both active anterior rhinomanometry (AAR) and acoustic rhinometry (AR). The nasal airway patency of healthy subjects was evaluated using AAR and AR. In AAR, the subjects generated airflow actively through inspiration and expiration in repetitions of 10, while nasal patency was measured at an inspiratory and expiratory reference pressure of 75 Pa. In AR, we assessed the geometry of the nasal cavity through the analysis of sound waves reflected from the nasal cavities in order to measure both cross-sectional areas and nasal volumes. The subjects were divided by gender, with all males and females then grouped by ages of 20–39 years, 40–59 years and ≥60 years. There were 40 subjects in each group. The mean resistance measured by AAR and the cross-sectional areas and nasal volumes measured by AR were not different between the different age groups; however, the cross-sectional areas and nasal volumes were found to be lesser in females than in males. Our results showed that nasal airway patency was not affected by age, while females were shown to have wider nasal passages than males.

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Title
Influence of Age and Gender on Nasal Airway Patency as Measured by Active Anterior Rhinomanometry and Acoustic Rhinometry
Author
Jing-Jie, Wang 1 ; Yi-Fang, Chiang 2 ; Rong-San Jiang 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Otolaryngology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 112304, Taiwan 
 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 112304, Taiwan 
 Department of Otolaryngology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 40201, Taiwan; Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40201, Taiwan 
First page
1235
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20754418
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2800035593
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.