Prevalence of undernutrition among adult tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Undernutrition and tuberculosis are the major public health problems of people living in middle and low-income countries. Even though single studies have been reported from different areas of Ethiopia, there is no national-level study that estimates the overall burden of undernutrition among tuberculosis patients. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the overall magnitude of undernutrition among adult tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia.

Methods

We searched out records from databases such as PubMed/MEDLINE, HINARI, EMBASE, Scopus, Google Scholar, and African journals and the online Ethiopian University repositories for published and unpublished articles. The data were extracted using a standardized data extraction format. Meta-analysis was computed using STATA ve

SUBMITTER: Wondmieneh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7797563 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature