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Understanding these disorders in this specific population is crucial due to the heightened susceptibility to decreased general health.<\/jats:p><jats:p>To assess the prevalence and the factors associated with self-reported smell and taste disorders in older adults hospitalized with COVID-19.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The present documentary and retrospective study used a dataset from the Para\u00edba State Department of Health based on individual record sheets of hospitalized people with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), collected through a national form routinely applied in Brazilian hospitals. The complaints of smell and taste disorders were the dependent variables. The independent variables included the clinical outcomes and comorbidities. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics, the Fisher's exact test, and binary logistic regression. The confidence interval was 95%.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The sample comprised 5,014 older adults with a mean age of 74.50\u2009\u00b1\u20099.35 years, of both biological sexes, and most of them were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), required non-invasive respiratory support, and experienced death. The prevalence of self-reported smell and taste disorders was 7.8% (95%CI\u2009=\u20097.2\u20138.8%) and 6.4% (95%CI\u2009=\u20095.6\u20137.1%) respectively. Smell disorders were less frequent among subjects admitted to the ICU and those who died, while taste disorders correlated with clinical outcomes such as fever, cough, sore throat, diarrhea, and comorbidities such as chronic neurological disease.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Self-reported smell and taste disorders are present in almost 10% of older adults hospitalized with COVID-19, and they are associated with clinical outcomes and commorbities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0045-1801854","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,29]],"date-time":"2025-07-29T23:49:02Z","timestamp":1753832942000},"page":"001-010","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Prevalence and Clinical Factors Associated with Self-reported Smell and Taste Disorders in Older Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"29","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3012-2100","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Let\u00edcia de Carvalho Palhano","family":"Travassos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departament of Statistics, Centro de Ci\u00eancias Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Para\u00edba, Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, PB, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hem\u00edlio Fernandes Campos","family":"Coelho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departament of Statistics, Centro de Ci\u00eancias Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Para\u00edba, Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, PB, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Assel Muratovna Shigayeva","family":"Ferreira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departament of Statistics, Centro de Ci\u00eancias Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Para\u00edba, Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, PB, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6246-9769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leandro","family":"Pernambuco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Speech Therapy, Centro de Ci\u00eancias da Sa\u00fade, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,29]]},"reference":[{"issue":"06","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e14","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.03.005","article-title":"Clinical features of COVID-19 in elderly patients: A comparison with young and middle-aged patients","volume":"80","author":"K Liu","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Infect"},{"issue":"02","key":"ref2","first-page":"1","article-title":"COVID - 19 IN BRAZIL: what is expected for the subaltern population?","author":"Y M Macedo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Revista Encantar."},{"issue":"06","key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e37","DOI":"10.4110\/in.2019.19.e37","article-title":"Aging and the Immune System: the Impact of Immunosenescence on Viral Infection, Immunity and Vaccine Immunogenicity","volume":"19","author":"S J Oh","year":"2019","journal-title":"Immune Netw"},{"issue":"03","key":"ref4","first-page":"e56311326869","article-title":"Evaluation of functional status on the clinical outcome of elderly hospitalized with Covid-19. 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