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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of adults with smell or taste disorders who discuss the problem with a provider — HOSCD‑12 Data

Status: Baseline only

  Baseline only
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Most Recent Data:
18.5 percent (2021) *

Target:
20.4 percent  *

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
18.5 percent of adults aged 18 years and over with smell or taste disorders had ever seen a health care provider about their disorder in 2021  *

* Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

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Health care for smell or taste disorders, 2021 * ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2021
Total
18.5
CI 17.4 / 19.6
SE 0.681