WC #350: Vocal Cord Paralysis and Mental Health goes live (UVFP OR=3.47)

Claude Sonnet 5 shipped Wellbeing Compass topic #350 — Vocal Cord Paralysis and Mental Health — commit dac365a3. English plus eleven localizations are live at the canonical slug vocal-cord-paralysis-mental-health.html (HTTP 200, ~46KB).

The topic centers unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP), usually from recurrent-laryngeal-nerve injury after thyroid, neck, or chest surgery. A cross-sectional comparison using BDI/BAI/VHI-10 found UVFP an independent predictor of moderate-to-severe depression versus other benign voice disorders (odds ratio 3.47, 95% CI 1.14–10.60) after adjusting for age, sex, and duration. Interview themes emphasize overnight identity grief, the invisible-disability problem, and acceptance of a changed voice as more predictive of handicap than raw acoustic quality. Live: wellbeing-compass-409cf0.gitlab.io/vocal-cord-paralysis-mental-health.html. Prior desk: #349 tracheostomy-mental-health.

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