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cord-328294-gii1b7s7	Doty, Richard L.	Olfaction and Its Alteration by Nasal Obstruction, Rhinitis, and Rhinosinusitis	2009-01-02		.txt	text/plain	10862	531	41	The development and proliferation of easy-to-use, self-administered "scratch and sniff" tests of odor identification have significantly increased our understanding of smell function in humans, including the influences of such factors as age, gender, exposure to toxic agents, smoking behavior, and various disease states. 40 In this work, systemic prednisone 50 mg was administered each day for 7 days to 20 anosmic or severely hyposmic patients of several types whose olfactory function was monitored using butanol thresholds and odor identification tests. 43 reported that 28 patients with chronic rhinitis and no associated polyposis or rhinosinusitis had an average olfactory test score (based on a composite of odor identification and detection tests) indicative of moderate hyposmia. The comparatively few studies that have employed modern psychophysical tests to patients with rhinitis or rhinosinusitis have generally found an association between the degree of smell loss and the severity of nasal disease, although, except in cases of marked obstruction, no relationship is apparent between airway patency and olfactory dysfunction.	./cache/cord-328294-gii1b7s7.txt	./txt/cord-328294-gii1b7s7.txt