{"id":6759,"date":"2020-05-11T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:32:59","slug":"prevalence-and-duration-of-acute-loss-of-smell-or-taste-in-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/prevalence-and-duration-of-acute-loss-of-smell-or-taste-in-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence and Duration of Acute Loss of Smell or Taste in COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lee et al. determined the prevalence of acute loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ageusia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) among 3,191 patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">awaiting hospitalization for COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Korea.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The presence of acute anosmia or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ageusia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was observed in 15.3% (488\/3,191) patients in the early stage of COVID-19 and in 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% (367\/2,342) patients with asymptomatic-to-mild disease severity. The prevalence was higher among females (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">17<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% vs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">13<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) and among people aged &lt;60 years (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">17<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% vs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%). Most patients with anosmia or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ageusia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0recovered\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from these symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">within 3 weeks,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">median time to recovery\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7 days for both symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anosmia and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ageusia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0seem to be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">common early<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of SARS-CoV-2 infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that could be used to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">syndromicly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0detect\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 at the early stage.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lee et al. (May 11, 2020). Prevalence and Duration of Acute Loss of Smell or Taste in COVID-19 Patients. Journal of Korean\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">M<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">edical\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">S<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">cience.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3346\/jkms.2020.35.e174\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3346\/jkms.2020.35.e174<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee et al. determined the prevalence of acute loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia) among 3,191 patients\u00a0awaiting hospitalization for COVID-19\u00a0in Korea.\u00a0 The presence of acute anosmia or\u00a0ageusia\u00a0was observed in 15.3% (488\/3,191) patients in the early stage of COVID-19 and in 16% (367\/2,342) patients with asymptomatic-to-mild disease severity. The prevalence was higher among females (17%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/prevalence-and-duration-of-acute-loss-of-smell-or-taste-in-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}