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cord-281500-5mm1nnwv	Spadera, Lucrezia	Sudden olfactory loss as an early marker of COVID-19: a nationwide Italian survey	2020-08-04		.txt	text/plain	3619	184	51	The questionnaire was composed of five sections: (a) respondents' workplace, age, and sex of the patient; (b) general information about the risk of exposure to COVID-19, asking to specify if the patient is a healthcare professional; (c) clinical information: onset of symptoms, grade of olfactory loss (OL) with three subjective levels (mild, moderate, and severe/complete), presence or absence of: ageusia, hypogeusia and/or dysgeusia gathered together under the name of "taste symptoms"; nasal discharge and/or congestion, other accompanying symptoms (e.g., fever, fatigue, dry cough, dyspnoea, and myalgia), comorbidities and complications; d) execution and results of nasopharyngeal (NP)/oropharyngeal (OP) swab; e) short description about the clinical case. The mean time of SOL onset before or after the first typical COVID-19 symptom (fever, dry cough, and dyspnoea) was 2.4 days (SD ± 2.7); anosmia/hyposmia occurred as the first symptom in 46.7% of cases, as sole symptom in 16.7% of cases or in association with other clinical manifestations in 31.2% of patients.	./cache/cord-281500-5mm1nnwv.txt	./txt/cord-281500-5mm1nnwv.txt