Association between birth control pills and voice quality

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1021-1026

  Amir, Ofer ^a   Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Birth control pill; Hormones; Perturbation; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS GESTODENE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEX HORMONE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 2542452075     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200406000-00012     Document Type: Article

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