The long-term smell and taste-associated outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using validated psychophysical tests.
By Dr. Chinta SidharthanApr 29 2024Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers aimed to quantitatively assess the long-term smell and taste-associated outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 using validated psychophysical tests to circumvent the inaccuracies that could occur with self-reported taste dysfunction.
However, there is a lack of studies that have assessed the chemosensory dysfunction in PCC patients over follow-up intervals of a year or more after the SARS-CoV-2 infection. They also assessed whether these findings were correlated with sex or age and investigated the association between the test scores and the SARS-CoV-2 variant responsible for the initial infection.
These items belonged to five categories, namely, sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and brothy. The 40-item smell function test consisted of four booklets containing scratch and sniff cards for various odorants, with four alternatives provided for each odorant to be identified through a multiple-choice question.
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