Relation of Gastric Acidity to Taste Perception Rate and the Phenylthiocarbamide Test in Articular Diseases

Autor: A. Brémová, J. Štepán, A. Milunicová
Rok vydání: 1965
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Zdroj: Acta Rheumatologica Scandinavica. 11:258-265
ISSN: 0001-6934
DOI: 10.3109/rhe1.1965.11.issue-1-4.30
Popis: Summary In 102 cases, comparisons were made between gastric acidity as determined by a gastrotest, and the perception rate of individual tastes (sweet, saline, sour, bitter). Of these, 65 were patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 6 with ankylosing spondylitis, 18 with degenerative joint diseases, 5 with other articular diseases, and 8 controls.Four groups were found: concurrently adequate acidity and taste perception, achlorhydria with inadequate taste perception, delayed taste perception with adequate gastric acidity, and hypergeusia for bitter taste with achlorhydria.In 110 patients (53 with RA, 34 with ankylosing spondylitis, 13 with degenerative joint diseases, 10 with other articular diseases) comparisons were made for the heredity-related character of perception of the bitter phenylthiocarbamide taste. In inflammatory diseases (rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis) and in all of the patients under test there was a significant decrease in the percentage of PTC non-tasters. The control group...
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