ReviewThe Journal of infectious diseases2019
Undernutrition and Tuberculosis: Public Health Implications.
Review in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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120 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 196 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of nutritional support to improve treatment adherence in patients with tuberculosis: a systematic review.Nutrition reviews · 2024Pooled it
- 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
- Energy dense nutritional supplements improve weight gain among malnourished adults with drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis: An open-label randomized controlled trial in Faridabad, India.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2026Trial
- The Impact of Vitamin A Deficiency on Tuberculosis Progression.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Trial
- Tuberculosis Care Access Among Internally Displaced Persons in India and Nigeria: A Review of Structural Barriers and Context-Specific Interventions.Public health challenges · 2026Review
- Molecular Characterization of theAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Tuberculosis and Cellular Metabolism: Insights into the Crosstalk Between Macrophage Immunometabolism and Muscle Dysregulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Recreational drug inhalation and socioenvironmental determinants of pulmonary infection in patients with HIV: a hospital-based case control study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence and its predictors among adult patients enrolled in antiretroviral therapy at public health facilities in Ambo Town, Oromia, Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Cost-effectiveness of in-kind nutritional support for impoverished persons with tuberculosis to reduce mortality and disengagement from care in India: a modelling study.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Mid-upper arm circumference predicts treatment outcomes in paediatric TB: a cohort study.IJTLD open · 2026Article
- Geospatial codistribution of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus in Indonesia.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Article
- Body mass index (BMI) at RR-TB diagnosis as an independent predictor of treatment outcomes: a retrospective analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Nutritional-immunological assessment by CONUT score predicts surgical outcomes in tuberculous empyema: development of a multivariate risk model.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Review
- Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases with BCG-Induced Diseases: A 15-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of clinical immunology · 2026Article
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis in war and complex emergencies: jeopardising progress towards TB elimination and antimicrobial resistance control - a scoping review and perspective.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Assessing mortality risk in pulmonary tuberculosis and severe malnutrition: development of the IIR marker via artificial intelligence.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association of serum Interleukin-6 with dysregulated lipid metabolism and nutritional status in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a case-control study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- In-kind Nutritional Supplementation for Persons With Drug-susceptible Tuberculosis and Their Household Contacts Would be Cost-effective for Reducing Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality in Jharkhand, India: A Modeling Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Almost 800 million people are chronically undernourished worldwide, of whom 98% are in low- and middle-income countries where tuberculosis is endemic. In many tuberculosis-endemic countries, undernutrition is a driver of tuberculosis incidence and associated with a high population attributable fraction of tuberculosis and poor treatment outcomes. Data suggest that undernutrition impairs innate and adaptive immune responses needed to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and may affect responses to live vaccines, such as BCG. Given its impact on tuberculosis, addressing undernutrition will be a vital component of the World Health Organization End TB strategy. This narrative review describes the effect of undernutrition on the immune response, vaccine response, and tuberculosis incidence, severity, and treatment outcomes.
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