{"id":6429,"date":"2024-04-24T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:22:34","slug":"long-covid-taste-loss-may-not-involve-taste-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/24\/long-covid-taste-loss-may-not-involve-taste-buds\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Taste Loss May Not Involve Taste Buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/longcovid\/109802?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2024-04-24&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_042424&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">Med Page Today<\/a> Study attempts to untangle taste and olfactory dysfunction 1 year after infection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taste dysfunction was gone 1 year after exposure to COVID-19, but smell loss remained for some people, a national cross-sectional study showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empirically measured taste function didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2817869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>JAMA Network<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/longcovid\/109802?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2024-04-24&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_042424&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"k  Rw\">k  Rw<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t differ between individuals who had acute SARS-CoV-2 infection a year earlier and uninfected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}