Prevalence of taste disorders (TD) and smell disorders (SD) and their clinical baseline characteristics
| Patients without SD or TD | Patients with TD only | Patients with SD only | Patients with TD and SD | P value | |
| Total, n (%) | 384 (56.0) | 131 (19.1) | 15 (2.2) | 156 (22.7) | |
| Age, (mean±SD) | 39±12 | 39.47±12.41 | 43.33±9.82 | 39.60±10.75 | 0.597 |
| Age groups, n (%) | 0.338 | ||||
| <18 years | 12 (3.1) | 3 (2.3) | 0 (0) | 4 (2.6) | |
| 18–30 years | 74 (19.3) | 33 (25.2) | 1 (6.7) | 24 (15.4) | |
| 31–40 years | 124 (32.3) | 38 (29) | 6 (40.0) | 65 (41.7) | |
| 41–50 years | 99 (25.8) | 28 (21.4) | 5 (33.3) | 34 (21.8) | |
| 51–60 years | 70 (18.2) | 24 (18.3) | 2 (13.3) | 26 (16.7) | |
| >60 years | 5 (1.3) | 5 (3.8) | 1 (6.7) | 3 (1.9) | |
| Gender, n (%) | 0.010 | ||||
| Male | 233 (60.7)a | 62 (47.3)b | 9 (60)a,b | 75 (48.1)b | |
| Female | 151 (39.3)a | 69 (52.7)b | 6 (40)a,b | 81 (51.9)b | |
| Smoking status, n (%) | 0.634 | ||||
| Never smoked | 289 (75.3) | 111 (84.7) | 12 (80) | 128 (82.1) | |
| Smoked | 95 (24.7) | 20 (15.3) | 3 (20) | 30 (17.9) | |
| Systemic disease | |||||
| None | 343 (70.9) | 112 (85.5) | 12 (80) | 133 (85.3) | 0.243 |
| Hypertension | 17 (4.4) | 10 (7.6) | 2 (13.3) | 8 (5.1) | 0.196 |
| Diabetes | 8 (2.1) | 4 (3.1) | 0 (0) | 3 (1.9) | 0.817 |
| Heart disease | 6 (1.6) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 3 (1.9) | 0.804 |
| Kidney disease | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.6) | 0.431 |
P value obtained using one-way ANOVA test for quantitative variables and χ2 test for qualitative variables. The comparison of the distribution of age and systemic disease were tested by Fisher’s exact test.
Significant p values in bold.
Subscript letter (a and b) denotes a subset of group categories whose gender proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.
ANOVA, analysis of variance.