TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cecchetto, Cinzia
A1  - Di Pizio, Antonella
A1  - Genovese, Federica
A1  - Calcinoni, Orietta
A1  - Macchi, Alberto
A1  - Dunkel, Andreas
A1  - Ohla, Kathrin
A1  - Spinelli, Sara
A1  - Farruggia, Michael C.
A1  - Joseph, Paule V.
A1  - Menini, Anna
A1  - Cantone, Elena
A1  - Dinnella, Caterina
A1  - Cecchini, Maria Paola
A1  - D'Errico, Anna
A1  - Mucignat-Caretta, Carla
A1  - Parma, Valentina
A1  - Dibattista, Michele
T1  - Assessing the extent and timing of chemosensory impairments during COVID-19 pandemic
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Chemosensory impairments have been established as a specific indicator of COVID-19. They affect most patients and may persist long past the resolution of respiratory symptoms, representing an unprecedented medical challenge. Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started, we now know much more about smell, taste, and chemesthesis loss associated with COVID-19. However, the temporal dynamics and characteristics of recovery are still unknown. Here, capitalizing on data from the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) crowdsourced survey, we assessed chemosensory abilities after the resolution of respiratory symptoms in participants diagnosed with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy. This analysis led to the identification of two patterns of chemosensory recovery, partial and substantial, which were found to be associated with differential age, degrees of chemosensory loss, and regional patterns. Uncovering the self-reported phenomenology of recovery from smell, taste, and chemesthetic disorders is the first, yet essential step, to provide healthcare professionals with the tools to take purposeful and targeted action to address chemosensory disorders and their severe discomfort.
KW  - Health care
KW  - Quality of life
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63253
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-632535
SN  - 2045-2322
N1  - CC is supported by a grant from MIUR (Dipartimenti di Eccellenza DM 11/05/2017 n. 262) to the Department of General Psychology. FG is supported by NIH/NIDCD grant R21DC018358. PVJ is supported by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Nursing Research and by the Office of Workforce Diversity, National Institutes of Health, and the Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award. MD is supported by Rita Levi Montalcini Award from Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (DM100915_685).
VL  - 11
IS  - art. 17504
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -