title: [Taste sensitivity to natrium chloride and saccharose in women and men of different age].
abstract: The gender and age influence on saccharose taste and sodium chloride taste sensitivity was tested in this work.
  
  
  METHODS
  275 volunteers, i.e. 161 women and 114 men, aged 18-55, participated in the study. All individuals were healthy and non-smoking. Serials dilutions of saccharose and sodium chloride were used to analyze sweet and salt taste sensitivity. The examination was performed according to the procedures established by the Polish Committee of Standards (PN-ISO 3972: 1998). The findings suggest no link between the gender and saccharose and sodium chloride taste sensitivity. However there is a link between taste sensitivity and age, i.e. taste sensitivity to sodium chloride decreases significantly whereas taste sensitivity to saccharose decreases slightly with age ofpopulation.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Zakładu Podstawowych Nauk Biomedycznych w Sosnowcu Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klimacka-Nawrot
authors.forename: Wanda
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Suchecka
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Błlońska-Fajfrowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012737:Sex Factors; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013395:Sucrose; D013652:Taste Threshold / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013395:Sucrose