Detection and recognition thresholds for five basic tastes in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia.

BMC Neurol · 2020 · PMC7098139 · PMID 32216773

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tendency toward significancep = 0.088so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The age-adjusted ANCOVA showed a tendency toward significance between patients with ADD and NDCs ( p = 0.088).

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

In this study, we used five basic tastes in 13 different concentrations and found that the overall detection thresholds for various taste solutions showed an increasing trend when we adjusted by age in ADD patients.

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