Can we add prior smell or taste disorders to the required medical history questions? This is an important variable – nearly 16 million people in the US already have a smell or taste loss and trying to understand the relationship between those two variables could be really important. Many of those in the chemosensory group will be doing this, but it would be very helpful if everybody were collecting this information.
Within the chemosensory group it makes sense to add that prior smell or taste disorders to medical history for all participants. The purpose of the data standards meetings is for each project to agree on things that would be scientifically interesting to have across the project.