{"id":8013,"date":"2020-07-07T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:47:31","slug":"self-reported-alteration-of-sense-of-smell-or-taste-in-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-on-3563-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/self-reported-alteration-of-sense-of-smell-or-taste-in-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-on-3563-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-reported alteration of sense of smell or taste in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis on 3563 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"13\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Borsetto\u00a0et al. conduct<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a systematic review and meta-analysis\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">18 studies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">563 patients) that assessed the prevalence of self-reported altered sense of smell or taste in patients with confirmed COVID-19. They found alterations in smell or taste among 31% of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">participants with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">severe\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and 67% of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">participants with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mild-to-moderate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, with an overall prevalence of 47%. In 20% of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">participants<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the alteration preceded other symptoms, suggesting the value of isolating patients complaining of smell or taste impairment.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Borsetto\u00a0et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May 13, 2020). Self-reported alteration of sense of smell or taste in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis on 3563 patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rhinology<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Journal<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4193\/Rhin20.185\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4193\/Rhin20.185<\/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>Borsetto\u00a0et al. conducted\u00a0a systematic review and meta-analysis\u00a0(18 studies\u00a0with\u00a03,563 patients) that assessed the prevalence of self-reported altered sense of smell or taste in patients with confirmed COVID-19. They found alterations in smell or taste among 31% of\u00a0participants with\u00a0severe\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0and 67% of\u00a0participants with\u00a0mild-to-moderate\u00a0COVID-19, with an overall prevalence of 47%. In 20% of\u00a0participants, the alteration preceded other symptoms, suggesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/self-reported-alteration-of-sense-of-smell-or-taste-in-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-on-3563-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-8013","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\/8013","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=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8014,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}