Low tongue strength is associated with oral and cough-related abnormalities in older inpatients
Akio Shimizu1,2, Keisuke Maeda2,3, Shinsuke Nagami4, Ayano Nagano5, Yumi Yamada6, Midori Shimizu7, Yuria Ishida8, Jun Kayashita9, Ichiro Fujishima10, Naoharu Mori2, Kenta Murotani11, Masaki Suenaga12
1Department of Nutrition, Hamamatsu City Rehabilitation Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan
2Department of Palliative and Supportive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan
3Department of Geriatric Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Japan
4Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki, Japan
5Department of Nursing Care, Nishinomiya Kyoritsu Neurosurgical Hospital, Nishinomiya, Japan
6Rehabilitation Visiting Nursing Station TRY, Aichi, Japan
7Department of Nutrition, Hamamatsu University Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan
8Department of Nutrition, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan
9Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Human Culture and Science, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
10Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hamamatsu City Rehabilitation Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan
11Biostatistics Center, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan
12Okinawa Chuzan Clinical Research Center, Chuzan Hospital, Okinawa, Japan