Med Page Today Study attempts to untangle taste and olfactory dysfunction 1 year after infection.
Taste dysfunction was gone 1 year after exposure to COVID-19, but smell loss remained for some people, a national cross-sectional study showed.
Empirically measured taste function didn’t differ between individuals who had acute SARS-CoV-2 infection a year earlier and uninfected people, reported Shima Moein, MD, PhD, of Sensonics International in New Jersey and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and co-authors.
However, olfactory dysfunction was present in 30.3% of individuals with prior COVID-19 compared with 21% of those who had no history of COVID infection (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.18-2.27), Moein and colleagues noted in JAMA Network