Loss of awareness of hyposmia is associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

摘要

Background: Hyposmia is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, patients with PD are sometimes unaware of their olfactory dysfunction, resulting in an under-diagnosis of this symptom. To determine whether the loss of awareness of hyposmia results from cognitive impairment in patients with PD, we investigated the relationship between the degree of hyposmia self-awareness and the cognitive status of non-demented PD patients.