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Laboratory biomarkers and taste problems

Sociodemographic and biochemical correlates of self-reported taste dysfunction: an NHANES analysis

Dhruva Arcot and Subhankar Chakraborty · 2026

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Section 11 of 19

  1. 01Introduction and background
  2. 02Methodology
  3. 03Data source and target population
  4. 04Outcomes and covariate domain categorization
  5. 05Statistical analysis and design weighting
  6. 06Survey-weighted descriptive profiling
  7. 07Purposeful variable selection framework
  8. 08Multivariate regression
  9. 09Hypothesis
  10. 10Results
  11. 11Laboratory biomarkers and taste problems
  12. 12Metabolic, liver, and kidney biomarkers
  13. 13Vitamins
  14. 14Serum fatty acids
  15. 15Univariate logistic regression
  16. 16Multivariable logistic regression
  17. 17Discussion
  18. 18Conclusions
  19. 19Supplementary Material
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Laboratory biomarkers and taste problems

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Weighted comparisons of estimated marginal means (EMM) for laboratory biomarkers revealed several statistically significant variations across metabolic profiles, environmental trace minerals, serum vitamin co-factors, and circulating fatty acid speciation profiles between individuals with and without taste problems.