Malnutrition assessment methods in adult patients with tuberculosis: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Malnutrition is associated with a twofold higher risk of dying in patients with tuberculosis (TB) and considered an important potentially reversible risk factor for failure of TB treatment. The construct of malnutrition has three domains: intake or uptake of nutrition; body composition and physical and cognitive function. The objectives of this systematic review are to identify malnutrition assessment methods, and to quantify how malnutrition assessment methods capture the international consensus definition for malnutrition, in patients with TB.

Design

Different assessment methods were identified. We determined the extent of capturing of the three domains of malnutrition, that is, intake or uptake of nutrition, body composition and physical and cognitive function.

SUBMITTER: Ter Beek L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8719177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature