The taste of the pandemic—contemporary review on the current state of research on gustation in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-509155
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.50915

Hintschich, Constantin A.

; Niv, Masha Y. ; Hummel, Thomas

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Abstract

Subjectively perceived impairment of taste is a common and distinct symptom of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Large meta-analyses identified this symptom in approximately 50% of cases. However, this high prevalence is not supported by blinded and validated psychophysical gustatory testing, which showed a much lower prevalence in up to 26% of patients. This discrepancy may be due to ...