Testosterone levels of children with a diagnosis of developmental stuttering

• DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s83129
• Publication Date: 2015-05-15T03:40:10Z
• Authors: Engin Burak Selcuk; Lale Gönenir Erbay; Özlem Özel Özcan; Şükrü Kartalcı; Kadir Batcıoğlu
• Keywords: Stuttering; Articulation (sociology)

Stuttering is defined as a disruption in the rhythm of speech and language articulation, where subject knows what he/she wants to say, but unable utter intended word or phrase fluently. The effect sex on development chronicity stuttering well known; it more common chronic males. We aimed investigate relationship between developmental serum testosterone levels this study.In study, we evaluated total 50 children (7-12 years age); eight (16%) were female 42 (84%) male. Twenty-five who stutter 25 typically fluent peers with same demographic properties (ages 7 12 years) included study. two groups determined terms nanogram per milliliter (ng/mL) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. difference means was analyzed.The medians stutterer control 20 ng/mL (range =12-184 ng/mL) 5 =2-30 ng/mL), respectively. Testosterone group significantly higher than (P=0.001). Besides, there significant correlation severity (P=0.0001).The findings study show that may have an clinical differences sexes. However, further investigations are needed play role etiology stuttering.