Tag: Anosmia (Poor Sense Of Taste Or Smell)

Increased risk for low self-rated mental health, loneliness symptoms seen for older adults with more sensory disabilities

Deficits appear to be greatest for individuals with the original untyped and alpha variant infections

Stroop and the psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score impairment also worse for patients versus controls

Three years after COVID-19, no significant excess of olfactory or gustatory dysfunction seen in cases versus controls

Odor sensitivity declines before odor identification and cognition in APOE ε4 carriers

Odds ratios for COVID-19-associated smell or taste disturbance significantly reduced, reaching 0.070 during omicron B peak interval

Both olfactory identification and sensitivity functions are associated with frailty

Altered smell and taste are significant predictors of positive anti-spike IgG response in multivariable models

However, roughly 10 percent of pre-omicron COVID-19 patients report recovery took more than six months

Women less likely than men to recover their sense of smell, as are those with greater initial severity of dysfunction