Editorial: Loss of taste and smell in COVID-19 patients: A prognostic tool and a starting point to investigate the action of SARS-CoV-2 in the central nervous systemCOVID-19TASTE disordersCENTRAL nervous systemPROGNOSTIC testsSARS-CoV-2
COVID-19Background Early detection, isolation and management of COVID-19 are crucial to contain the current pandemic. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently included 'sudden loss of taste (dysgeusia/ageusia) and smell (anosmia/hyposmia)' as symptoms of COVID-19. If ...
Dec. 15, 2022 – Peoplewho reported loss of taste or smell due to a COVID-19 infectionhad twice the number of neutralizing antibodies compared to people who also got the virus but could still smell and taste normall...
Click here to view related media.click to expand BALTIMORE (WJZ) --COVID-19 symptoms vary from person to person, but for weeks now, some who've been diagnosed with the virus have reported losing some sense of smell and taste. One doctor at Johns Hopkins said he believes tracking thes...
Does the RAAS play a role in loss of taste and smell during COVID-19 infections?doi:10.1038/s41397-020-00202-8Heloise R. LuchiariRicardo J. GiordanoRichard L. SidmanRenata PasqualiniWadih ArapThe Pharmacogenomics Journal
Using online surveys, we collected data regarding COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste from 69,841 individuals. We performed a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study and identified a genome-wide significant locus in the vicinity of the UGT2A1 and UGT2A2 genes. Both genes are expresse...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People who've lost their ability to smell and taste due to COVID-19 have significant struggles, but they can find ways to cope with their situation, a new study shows. One of the most common side effects of COVID-19 is the loss of the...
They saw even steeper declines in loss of smell in 2022 and early 2023, as Omicron variants dominated. The risk of smell loss from infection was as low as 6% compared with 2020 rates. “This data shows that smell and taste loss is no longer a reliable indicator of COVID-19 infection,”...
There have been reports of loss of taste or smell associated with viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2. However, it is not clear whether these symptoms are more frequent in SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with other viral infections. Prior studies among individuals with SARS- CoV-2 infection ...
Loss of smell and taste—a hallmark symptom of COVID-19—was not on the minds of a group of Yale School of Medicine researchers when they embarked on a study in the spring of 2020.