Evaluation of Olfactory and Gustatory Function of HIV Infected Women

Table 2

Comparison of smell and taste of the participants.

Variable	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Level of significance ( value)
	HIV infected women	HIV uninfected women
Smell
Olfactory threshold	8.1 ± 5.0	11.4 ± 2.1	0.000
Olfactory discrimination	10.1 ± 5.0	11.7 ± 2.6	0.012
Olfactory identification	9.0 ± 4.7	13.3 ± 3.0	0.000
TDI	27.3 ± 11.7	36.3 ± 5.0	0.000
Taste
Sweet	3.3 ± 0.9	3.8 ± 0.6	0.000
Sour	3.1 ± 0.9	3.3 ± 0.9	0.034
Salty	3.1 ± 1.1	3.5 ± 0.8	0.000
Bitter	3.2 ± 1.0	3.7 ± 0.6	0.000
TTS	25.3 ± 5.9	29.0 ± 3.8	0.040
Subjective smell	8.8 ± 1.4	9.1 ± 1.2	0.67
Subjective taste	7.6 ± 2.9	8.6 ± 1.9	0.84