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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2021

Chemosensory Dysfunction in Patients with COVID-19: What Do We Learn from the Global Outbreak?

Ming Zeng, De-Yun Wang, Joaquim Mullol, Zheng Liu

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Article
  4. Long-term Consequences of COVID-19: Chemosensory Disorders.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023
    Review
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  7. Neurological toll of COVID-19.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
    Review
  8. New Brazilian variant of the SARS-CoV-2 (P1/Gamma) of COVID-19 in Alagoas state.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Ming ZengDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
De-Yun WangDepartment of Otolaryngology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Joaquim MullolRhinology Unit and Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, CIBERES, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Zheng LiuDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. zhengliuent@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-6702

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81630024National Natural Science Foundation of China 81920108011National Natural Science Foundation of China 82071025Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province 2018CFB602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewChemosensory dysfunction in the patients with COVID-19 has been reported frequently in the studies from different regions of the world. However, the prevalence of smell and/or taste disorders presents significant ethnic and geographic variability. In addition, the pathogenesis of chemosensory dysfunction remains unclarified. RECENT

findingsThis is a narrative review on the recent state of the prevalence, mechanism, and diagnostic and therapeutic strategy of chemosensory dysfunction in COVID-19 patients during the global pandemic. The chemosensory dysfunction was analysis based on recent studies, which either used questionnaires, Likert scales (0-10), or smell tests to estimate the smell and taste dysfunction. The ethnic and geographic difference of the prevalence of smell and/or taste disorders and the potential underlying mechanisms have been discussed. Several suggestions on the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients with smell and taste disorders were summarized for the physicians. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the current studies regarding the chemosensory dysfunction during the COVID-19 worldwide outbreak.

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SARS-CoV-2COVID-19DemographyEthnicityGlobal HealthHumansOlfaction DisordersPandemicsPrevalenceSurveys and QuestionnairesTaste DisordersChemosensory dysfunctionCoronavirus disease 2019Loss of smellLoss or distortion of tasteSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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PMID33537862
PMCPMC7857344

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