Nutritional assessment among adult patients with suspected or confirmed active tuberculosis disease in rural India.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our study goal was to evaluate a set of nutritional indicators among adults with confirmed or suspected active tuberculosis disease in southern India, given the limited literature on this topic. Study objectives were to assess the: I) double burden of malnutrition at individual and population levels; II) relative performance of anthropometric indicators (body mass index, waist circumference) in diabetes screening; and III) associations between vitamin D and metabolic abnormalities.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Hospital in rural southern India.

Participants

Among adult patients (n = 834), we measured anthropometry, body composition, and biomarkers (vitamin D, glycated hemoglobin, hemoglobin) of nutritional status. Subsets of participants prov

SUBMITTER: Yu EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7244113 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature