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. 2020 Oct 8;40(4):691–697. doi: 10.1007/s10096-020-04056-7

Table 3.

Comparison of demographics, comorbidities, symptoms, and severity criteria between patients with hyposmia and/or hypogeusia and patients without hyposmia nor hypogeusia

Univariate analysis Multivariate analysis
Variables No hyposmia nor hypogeusia N = 237 Hyposmia and/or hypogeusia N = 153 p value OR (95% CI) p value
Age (years) 60 (47–75) 46.5 (33–56) < 0.001 0.97 (0.96–0.99) < 0.001
Female 104 (44%) 84 (55%) 0.038
HTA 79 (33%) 32 (21%) 0.011
Diabetes 45 (19%) 16 (10%) 0.032
Obesity 25 (11%) 12 (8%) 0.48
Bronchopathy 40 (17%) 12 (8%) 0.014 0.44 (0.21–0.94) 0.034
Cardiopathy 37 (16%) 8 (5%) 0.002
Nephropathy 17 (7%) 3 (2%) 0.032
Neurological diseases 25 (11%) 3 (2%) 0.001 0.27 (0.08–0.95) 0.042
Cancer 22 (9%) 4 (3%) 0.011
Hemopathy 14 (6%) 2 (1%) 0.034
Graft 7 (3%) 2 (1%) 0.49
Other immunodepression* 17 (7%) 7 (5%) 0.39
Time since onset of first symptom (days) 9 (5–13) 11 (8–15) 0.001
Asthenia 132 (56%) 133 (87%) < 0.001 4.83 (2.7–8.65) < 0.001
Cough 178 (75%) 121 (79%) 0.39
Fever 170 (72%) 106 (69%)
Headache 60 (25%) 88 (58%) < 0.001 1.88 (1.11–3.19) 0.018
Diarrhea and/or vomiting 69 (29%) 51 (33%) 0.43
Dyspnea 119 (50%) 56 (37%) 0.009
Neurological manifestations 18 (8%) 14 (9%) 0.58
Signs of respiratory severity 101 (43%) 28 (18%) < 0.001 0.51 (0.29–0.91) 0.023
Oxygen therapy ≥ 3 l 60 (25%) 15 (10%) 0.0002
Non-invasive ventilation 12 (5%) 0 (0%) 0.004
Invasive ventilation 8 (3%) 3 (2%) 0.54

*HIV, autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, sickle cell anemia. Data expressed in median (IQR) for continuous variables or N (%) for qualitative data