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However, it is unclear if there is a relationship between dysarthria and the severity or duration of the disease.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Describe the speech pattern in MS, correlate with clinical data, and compare with controls.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A group of MS patients (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200973) matched to healthy controls (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200937) by sex and age. Individuals with neurological and\/or systemic conditions that could interfere with speech were excluded. MS group clinical data were obtained through the analysis of medical records. The speech assessment consisted of auditory-perceptual and speech acoustic analysis, from recording the following speech tasks: phonation and breathing (sustained vowel\/a\/); prosody (sentences with different intonation patterns) and articulation (diadochokinesis; spontaneous speech; diphthong\/iu\/repeatedly).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In MS, 72.6% of the individuals presented mild dysarthria, with alterations in speech subsystems: phonation, breathing, resonance, and articulation. In the acoustic analysis, individuals with MS were significantly worse than the control group (CG) in the variables: standard deviation of the fundamental frequency (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.001) and maximum phonation time (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.041). In diadochokinesis, individuals with MS had a lower number of syllables, duration, and phonation time, but larger pauses per seconds, and in spontaneous speech, a high number of pauses were evidenced as compared to CG. Correlations were found between phonation time in spontaneous speech and the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009\u2212 0.238,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.043) and phonation ratio in spontaneous speech and EDSS (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009\u22120.265,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.023), which indicates a correlation between the number of pauses during spontaneous speech and the severity of the disease.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The speech profile in MS patients was mild dysarthria, with a decline in the phonatory, respiratory, resonant, and articulatory subsystems of speech, respectively, in order of prevalence. 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