Scientific American: Anosmia, the Inability to Smell, Changes How People Breathe

Anosmia, or loss of a sense of smell, has become a more familiar term over the past few years, thanks to the prevalence of this condition during the COVID pandemic. Researchers have studied anosmia for centuries, and they have demonstrated that it reduces quality of life and can be associated with depression, early mortality and other serious health outcomes. Now new research gets at another distinction between those who can smell and those who can’t.

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