A study on taste-sensitivity in healthy adults - Relation to habit of smoking.

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  • Minohara Minae
    Department of Hygiene, Fujita-Gakuen Health University School of Medicine
  • Ito Yoshinori
    Department of Hygiene, Fujita-Gakuen Health University School of Medicine
  • Otani Motohiko
    Department of Hygiene, Fujita-Gakuen Health University School of Medicine
  • Sasaki Ryuichiro
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Aoki Kunio
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine

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  • 健常成人の味覚識別能に関する研究　　喫煙との関連性について
  • ケンジョウ セイジン ノ ミカク シキベツノウ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ キツ
  • Relation to habit of smoking
  • 喫煙との関連性について

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The effect of cigarette smoking on taste-sensitivity in 905 healthy inhabitants, aged from 38 to 84 years was studied.<br>The taste-sensitivity was evaluated with four tastes sweet, salty, sour, and bitter; using sucrose, sodium chloride, tartaric acid, and quinine hydrochloric acid in 10 different concentrations for each as the respective reagents.<br>Taste-sensitivity in these healthy adults mearsured by the dropping procedure was more sensitive in females than in males for each taste, and also showed a tendancy to decrease with age in both sexes.<br>Using multi-variate analysis adjusted by sex and age, it was found that taste-sensitivity was reduced with the increase in the number of cigarettes smoked per day, and that there was a dose-response relationship between cigarette smoking and taste-sensitivity to sweet, salty, sour, or bitter taste.

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