ArticleBMC research notes2017
Low plasma vitamin A concentration is associated with tuberculosis in Moroccan population: a preliminary case control study.
Article in BMC research notes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Randomized controlled trial of vitamin d supplementation on toll-like receptor-2 (tlr-2) and toll-like receptor-4 (tlr-4) in tuberculosis spondylitis patients.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Trial
- The Impact of Vitamin A Deficiency on Tuberculosis Progression.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Trial
- A Plasma Metabolic Signature to Diagnose Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Monitor Treatment Response.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Molecular perturbations in pulmonary tuberculosis patients identified by pathway-level analysis of plasma metabolic features.PloS one · 2022Article
- AllCurrent research in immunology · 2022Review
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is exacerbated in mice lacking lecithin:retinol acyltransferase.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2020Article
- Host-Directed Therapy as a Novel Treatment Strategy to Overcome Tuberculosis: Targeting Immune Modulation.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Assessment of Vitamin Status in Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Potential Role of Vitamin A as a Risk Factor.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Changes in Host Response toFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2019Review
- Role of Vitamin A in the Immune System.Journal of clinical medicine · 2018Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundVitamin A plays numerous roles in immune system. Its deficiency alters both the innate and adaptive immunity. Previous results reported that the micronutrients deficiency, particularly vitamin A, is observed in patients with tuberculosis. Thus, we aimed in this study to assess vitamin A concentrations in Moroccan patients with tuberculosis to set up a large efficacy study of vitamin A supplementation for TB infected patients. Plasma retinol concentration was measured by HPLC in 44 recently diagnosed TB patients and 40 healthy controls.
resultsWe showed that plasma vitamin A is significantly lower in tuberculosis patients as compared to healthy controls (p < 0.0001). Moreover, no significant association was found between vitamin A deficiency and, TB severity and patients' ages.
conclusionOur study confirms the association between low vitamin A levels and tuberculosis disease.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.