Taste ability in hospitalised older people compared with healthy, age-matched controls

Gerodontology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-48

  Solemdal, Kirsten ^a   Sandvik, Leiv ^a   Willumsen, Tiril ^a   Mowe, Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

controls; hospitalized older people; taste ability; taste strips

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

AGED; AGEUSIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASTE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGEUSIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CITRIC ACID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; QUININE; SEX FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894028173     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ger.12001     Document Type: Article

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