2015-01-192014-05-30DUARTE, Flávia Moreno. Capacidade olfatória e gustativa na doença de Parkinson e nas doenças neurodegenerativas corticais. 2014. 93 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Nutrição e Saúde) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3911Smell and taste are often impaired by neurodegenerative diseases, however, they have never been studied in association in individuals with cortical and subcortical neurodegenerative diseases in Brazil. This study aimed to evaluate the olfactory and gustative capacity of Parkinson’s disease (PD) individuals, comparing them to a group of subjects with cortical neurodegenerative diseases (CND) and to a control group. It was a cross-sectional study, with convenience sampling. PD individuals were recruited at the Reference Center of Movement Disorders of Clínicas Hospital at the Federal University of Goiás (Centro de Referência em Transtornos do Movimento do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Goiás) (n=80), CND patients were referred from a private clinic of Goiânia (n=20) and the control individuals, at the same age group of PD patients, neurodegenerative disease-free, came from several areas of Clínicas Hospital (n=40). Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected through direct interview and the use of a structured questionnaire including the following variables: gender, age, skin color, schooling, disease duration and stage and life habits. Olfactory capacity was assessed through Sniffin’ Sticks test (odor threshold, discrimination and identification) and gustative capacity through threshold and recognition test of the five basic tastes (sweet, savory, bitter, acid and umami). In order to test the association of olfactory and gustative capacity among the groups, Fisher’s exact test was used. For the comparison of detection and recognition thresholds’ means of basic tastes ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis were used. PD and CND individuals presented, respectively, 93.8 % and 100 % olfactory compromising and only 15 % of control group individuals presented olfactory reduction, demonstrating statistically significant differences (p<0.001). There were also differences both in detection thresholds as in recognition thresholds of basic tastes among the groups (p<0.001), except for recognition threshold of acid taste (p= 0.088) and umami (p=0.153). Regarding gustative capacity, 53.8 % of PD patients, 50 % of CND individuals and 35 % of control group subjects presented no altered identification of basic tastes, however, there were no significant differences among the groups (p=0.150). It can be concluded that olfactory and gustative capacity in individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, both cortical and subcortical, is compromised and, consequently, presents itself as an important marker of these diseases.application/pdfAcesso AbertoLimiar sensorialLimite de detecçãoTranstornos do olfatoDistúrbios do paladarDegeneração neuralDemênciaSensory thresholdsLimit of detectionOlfaction disordersTaste disordersNerve degenerationDementiaCIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAODissertação