TY - JOUR T1 - Prevalence of anosmia among COVID-19 patients in Taif City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia JF - Saudi Medical Journal JO - Saudi Med J SP - 38 LP - 43 DO - 10.15537/smj.2021.1.25588 VL - 42 IS - 1 AU - Adnan A. Mubaraki AU - Ghaida T. Alrbaiai AU - Afnan K. Sibyani AU - Rahaf M. Alhulayfi AU - Reema S. Alzaidi AU - Haneen S. Almalki Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://smj.org.sa/content/42/1/38.abstract N2 - Objectives: To assess the prevalence of anosmia in coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) patients. Coronavirus-19-related anosmia and hyposmia is a new emerging concept in the medical literature.Methods: A retrospective study on COVID-19 patients with anosmia and hyposmia was performed during the period between May-July, 2020. The inclusion criteria were all clinically stable COVID-19 patients >15 years old with positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Patients who refused to participate or leave incomplete questions were excluded. In this study, we investigated 1022 patients who met our criteria.Results: Olfactory dysfunction (OD) was reported by 53% of our COVID-19 patients, of which 32.7% were anosmic and 20.3% were hyposmic. Other neurological symptoms included ageusia (51.4%), fatigue (63%), myalgia (59.2%), and headache (50.9%), all of which showed significant association with OD. In addition, anosmia had a significant association with young age and female gender. However, there was no association between OD and pre-existing neurological disease.Conclusion: Half of our COVID-19 patients presented OD (anosmia/hyposmia), which often associated with ageusia and many neurological symptoms. ER -