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Diagnosis concept

Loss of taste

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
36955009
  • 507 patients
  • 4.5% of all patients
  • #75 of 778 across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 507 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Hemoptysis
2% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Nasal congestion
5% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Nausea
5% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Vomiting symptom
5% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Hypoxemia
16% of these patients· 1% of all patients

Of the 507 patients with this diagnosis, the share who also carry each one, against how common it is across all patients.

Age at first diagnosis

Loss of taste: median 33 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 507 patients in all; the largest group is 20 to 29 with 90; Loss of taste: median 33 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 50 0 to 9: 72 patients 10 to 19: 76 patients 20 to 29: 90 patients 30 to 39: 49 patients 40 to 49: 79 patients 50 to 59: 74 patients 60 to 69: 31 patients 70 to 79: 27 patients 80 to 89: 6 patients 90 and over: 3 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 33 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 20 to 29 hold the most, 90 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is up to a month with 354 episodes. no end recorded: 33 episodes no end recorded 33 a week or less: 0 episodes a week or less 0 up to a month: 354 episodes up to a month 354 up to three months: 120 episodes up to three months 120 up to a year: 0 episodes up to a year 0 one to five years: 0 episodes one to five years 0 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
up to a month, more than any other. 507 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.