Association between bitter taste receptor types, clinical outcomes among patients with COVID-19

What The Study Did:


This study evaluates the association between bitter taste receptor types (supertasters

who experience greater intensity of bitter


tastes

; tasters; and nontasters who

experience low intensity of bitter tastes or no bitter


tastes)

and outcomes after infection with SARS-CoV-2.

Authors:

H

enry P. Barham, MD, Sinus and Nasal Specialists of Louisiana in


Baton Rouge,

is the corresponding author.

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