Problems with ability to smell or taste common in middle-aged and older adults

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Approximately 23 percent of U.S. adults ages 40 and older report having had a problem with their ability to smell, and about 19 percent report having had a problem with their ability to taste, according to a recently published study. Conducted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study examines the first collection of nationally representative, population-based survey data of middle-aged and older adults on perceived smell and taste problems, related risk factors, and treatments.