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Comorbidities in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India: Opportunities for intervention.
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- Malnutrition in tribal people living with tuberculosis in India: A systematic review & meta-analysis.The Indian journal of medical research · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and risk factors of malnutrition in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Malnutrition assessment methods in adult patients with tuberculosis: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of treatment adherence on the association between sex and unfavourable treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Puducherry, India: a mediation analysis.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Observational
- Impact of Undernutrition on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in India: A Multicenter, Prospective, Cohort Analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with diabetes mellitus among tuberculosis patients in South India-a cross-sectional analytical study.BMJ open · 2021Observational
- Tuberculosis-Learning the Impact of Nutrition (TB LION): protocol for an interventional study to decrease TB risk in household contacts.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Food for thought: addressing undernutrition to end tuberculosis.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2021Review
- Comparing tuberculosis gene signatures in malnourished individuals using the TBSignatureProfiler.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
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- Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India.PloS one · 2021Article
- Predictors of Loss to Follow-Up among Men with Tuberculosis in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Observational
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- Alcohol use and tuberculosis clinical presentation at the time of diagnosis in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India.PloS one · 2020Observational
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to define characteristics of TB patients in Puducherry and two districts of Tamil Nadu, India and calculate the population attributable fractions (PAF) of TB from malnutrition and alcohol.
methodsNew smear-positive TB cases were enrolled into the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT India) cohort. Census and National Family Health Survey data were used for comparisons.
resultsData were analyzed for 409 participants enrolled between May 2014-June 2016; 307 (75.1%) were male, 60.2% were malnourished (body mass index [BMI] <18.5 kg/m2), and 29.1% severely malnourished (BMI <16). "Hazardous" alcohol use (based on AUDIT-C score) was reported by 155/305 (50.8%) of males. Tuberculosis cases were more likely than the Puducherry population to be malnourished (62.6% v 10.2% males and 71.7% v 11.3% of females; both p<0.001), and male cases were more likely to use alcohol than male non-cases (84.4% v 41%; p < .001). The PAF of malnutrition was 57.4% in males and 61.5% in females; the PAF for alcohol use was 73.8% in males and 1.7% in females.
conclusionsAlcohol use in men and malnutrition are helping drive the TB epidemic in Southern India. Reducing the TB burden in this population will require efforts to mitigate these risk factors.
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