ArticleEuropean annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases2022
Prevalence and Characteristics of Altered Sense of Smell/Taste During Covid-19 first wave: A French Nationwide Cross-sectional Study.
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- The Prognostic Value of Olfactory Dysfunction in Patients with COVID-19: The COVIDORA Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Review
- Exploring the Clinical Utility of Gustatory Dysfunction (GD) as a Triage Symptom Prior to Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) in the Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
aimAltered sense of smell and/or taste is a leading symptom of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but its prevalence at a population-level is unknown.
methodsFrom a questionnaire addressed to a representative subset of the French general adult (≥18-year) population over a 6-week period during the first French lockdown (April 7 to May 19 2020), self-reported new cases of altered sense of smell and/or taste were collected.
resultsFrom 29,660 participants, new altered sense of smell and/or taste was 2.18% and 2.11% after direct standardization on the French population representing more than 1,110,000 subjects in France. Moreover, 0.5% of participants reported a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, among which 47.4% reported a newly altered sense of smell and/or taste. Male participants, younger ones together with those presenting with chronic condition had higher odds of reporting a newly altered sense of smell and/or taste.
conclusionThis study provides an accurate estimate of new cases of altered sense of smell and/or taste in the general population at a nationwide level during the Covid-19 first wave.
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