Research Article
Evaluation of Olfactory and Gustatory Function of HIV Infected Women
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants.
| | Variable | HIV infected women | HIV uninfected women |
| | Age (years) | | | | 35 and below | 20 (24.1) | 56 (70.9) | | 36–55 | 51 (61.4) | 18 (22.8) | | 56 and above | 12 (14.5) | 5 (6.3) | | Marital status | | | | Single | 6 (7.2) | 31 (39.2) | | Married | 64 (77.1) | 47 (59.5) | | Divorced | 3 (3.6) | 0 | | Widow | 10 (12.0) | 1 (1.3) | | Occupation | | | | Class 1 | 6 (7.2) | 12 (15.2) | | Class 2 | 26 (31.3) | 24 (30.4) | | Class 3 | 14 (16.9) | 3 (3.8) | | Class 4 | 37 (44.6) | 32 (40.5) | | Class 5 | 0 | 8 (10.1) | | Preference for taste | | | | Salt | 33 (39.8) | 29 (36.8) | | Sweet | 28 (33.7) | 34 (43.0) | | Sour | 14 (16.9) | 11 (13.9) | Bitter
| 8 (9.6) | 5 (6.3)
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