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ArticleInterdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases2016

Circulating Interferon-Gamma Levels Are Associated with Low Body Weight in Newly Diagnosed Kenyan Non-Substance Using Tuberculosis Individuals.

Nathan Shaviya, Valentine Budambula, Mark K Webale, Tom Were

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Article in Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nathan ShaviyaDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 190, Kakamega 50100, Kenya.
Valentine BudambulaDepartment of Environment and Health Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya.
Mark K WebaleDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 190, Kakamega 50100, Kenya.
Tom WereDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 190, Kakamega 50100, Kenya.
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology · KETechnical University of Mombasa · KE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although interferon-gamma, interleukin-10, and adiponectin are key immunopathogenesis mediators of tuberculosis, their association with clinical manifestations of early stage disease is inconclusive. We determined interferon-gamma, interleukin-10, and adiponectin levels in clinically and phenotypically well-characterised non-substance using new pulmonary tuberculosis patients (n = 13) and controls (n = 14) from Kenya. Interferon-gamma levels (P < 0.0001) and interferon-gamma to interleukin-10 (P < 0.001) and interferon-gamma to adiponectin (P = 0.027) ratios were elevated in tuberculosis cases. Correlation analyses in tuberculosis cases showed associations of interferon-gamma levels with body weight (ρ = -0.849; P < 0.0001), body mass index (ρ = 0.664; P = 0.013), hip girth (ρ = -0.579; P = 0.038), and plateletcrit (ρ = 0.605; P = 0.028); interferon-gamma to interleukin-10 ratio with diastolic pressure (ρ = -0.729; P = 0.005); and interferon-gamma to adiponectin ratio with body weight (ρ = -0.560; P = 0.047), body mass index (ρ = -0.604; P = 0.029), and plateletcrit (ρ = 0.793; P = 0.001). Taken together, our results suggest mild-inflammation in early stage infection characterised by upregulation of circulating interferon-gamma production in newly infected TB patients.

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