Table 1.

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID 19 disease

Variables	Total n = 387	with OD n = 167	without OD n = 220	p value	with GD n = 153	without GD n = 234	p value	with OD & GD n = 105	without OD & GD n = 282	p value
Gender
Male	255	113	142	0.52	100	155	0.42	70	185	0.47
Female	132	54	78		53	79		35	97
Age group (years)
18–35	180	87	93	0.25	70	110	0.63	51	129	0.92
36–50	121	48	73		52	69		32	89
51–65	82	28	45		25	48		18	55
> 65	17	4	9		6	7		4	9
ILI Symptoms	228	123	105	< 0.001	132	96	< 0.001	92	136	< 0.001
Specific risk factor
HCW	81	35	46	0.49	35	46	0.22	26	55	0.12
Non HCW	306	132	174		118	188		79	227
Habits (Consume Alcohol, Smoking, tobacco chewing)
Present	66	32	34	0.16	30	36	0.14	24	42	0.03
Absent	321	135	186		123	198		81	240
Co Morbidities
Cadio-vascular diseases	59	24	35	0.81	29	30	0.36	18	41	0.52
Diabetes mellitus	32	13	19	0.76	14	18	0.61	11	21	0.33
CLD	11	5	6	0.87	6	5	0.3	5	6	0.16
CKD	2	2	0	–	2	0	–	2	0	–
Malignancy	2	2	0	–	2	0	–	2	0	–

Bold numbers signifies that p value is less than 0.05, which means all those factors in bold had significant chances of developing Olfactory and gustatory dysfunction

COVID 19 corona virus disease 2019, OD olfactory dysfunction, GD gustatory dysfunction, ILI influenza like illness, HCW health care worker, CLD chronic lung disease, CKD chronic kidney disease, CVD cardiovascular disease.