Prevalence and risk factors of self-reported smell and taste alterations: Results from the 2011-2012 US national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES)

Chemical Senses

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 69-76

  Rawal, Shristi ^a   Hoffman, Howard J ^b   Bainbridge, Kathleen E ^b   Huedo Medina, Tania B ^a   Duffy, Valerie B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry mouth; Dysgeusia; Head injury; Health status; Phantosmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DYSGEUSIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE INJURY; OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SMELLING DISORDER; TASTE DISORDER; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; XEROSTOMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; ODOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASTE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SMELL; TASTE;

EID: 84960102392     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjv057     Document Type: Article

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