The Prevalence of Laryngeal Pathologies in an Academic Population

Voice disorders have a higher rate of occurrence among university teachers. Demands of teaching, like vocal effort and years of teaching, and not other demographic and/or behavioral factors, are the risk factors that increase the rate of occurrence of voice disorders among the university teachers. Risk factors that predispose to laryngeal pathology were not detected in the present study. However, the high prevalence of functional laryngeal pathologies underlines the importance of further investigation toward this type of laryngeal pathology in this academic population.