Dysphonia and laryngeal dysfunction during phonation were more common among patients with asthma than among a group of healthy controls, according to a study published in Clinical and Translational Allergy.
“A lot of asthmatic patients exhibit dysphonia, and it has always been suggested that dysphonia was caused by inhaled corticosteroids by inducing laryngeal mycosis or nodules on the vocal cords,” Nicolas Migueres, MD, of the division of asthma and allergy in the department of chest diseases at Strasbourg University Hospitals, told Healio.
“On the other hand, a lot of