ReviewBMC global and public health2024
Nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency must be addressed with the same urgency as HIV to end tuberculosis.
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- Rethinking Tuberculosis Morbidity Quantification: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of TB Disability Weights in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.PharmacoEconomics · 2024Pooled 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
- Mid-upper arm circumference predicts treatment outcomes in paediatric TB: a cohort study.IJTLD open · 2026Article
- Body mass index (BMI) at RR-TB diagnosis as an independent predictor of treatment outcomes: a retrospective analysis.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
- Association rule mining and network analysis of the evolving comorbidity patterns in HIV inpatients in Baise, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Impact of Nutritional Counselling and Support on Body Mass Index Recovery and Treatment Outcomes Among Tuberculosis Patients in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Immunomodulatory activity of 4-(Benzyloxy)phenol facilitates intracellular mycobacterial clearance through p53 mediated IL-35 signaling dependent JAK1/STAT3 pathway in human macrophages.Immunologic research · 2025Article
- A roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into the care of people with tuberculosis.The Lancet. Global health · 2025Review
- Effects of Climate Change on the Immune System: A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The ABCDs of Nutritional Assessment in Infectious Diseases Research.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Enriching tuberculosis research by measuring poverty better: a perspective.BMC global and public health · 2025Review
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- Food insecurity in South Indian households with TB during COVID-19 lockdowns and the impact of nutritional interventions: A qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Broadening the vaccine metaphor: The adequate balanced food (ABF) vaccine against tuberculosis (Acid-fast bacilli/AFB) and more.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Anaemia and associated factors in people living with HIV on ART in Southern Province of Zambia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Understanding the epidemiology of TB-HIV co-infection in Indonesia: evidence from the 2023 national TB registry.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Addressing the root causes: leveraging nutrition to accelerate the end of TB.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Article
- Clearing the air: microcosting the carbon impact of drug-susceptible pulmonary TB treatment.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone. One in 5 incident TB cases were attributable to malnutrition, more than double the fraction attributed to HIV. Like HIV, malnutrition is a cause of secondary immunodeficiency and has even been dubbed nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (N-AIDS). However, malnutrition remains the neglected cousin of HIV in global TB elimination efforts. Malnutrition increases the risk for TB progression, increases disease severity, and worsens TB treatment outcomes. Thus, it is both a TB determinant and comorbidity. In this perspective, we discuss decades of data to make the case that N-AIDS, just like HIV/AIDS, also deserves special consideration in the TB elimination discourse. Fortunately, malnutrition is a modifiable risk factor and there is now empirical evidence that addressing nutrition can help us curb the TB pandemic. Recognizing malnutrition as a key determinant and comorbidity is key to detecting and treating the missing millions while also preventing additional millions from suffering TB disease.
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