Comorbidities in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India: Opportunities for intervention

We aimed to define characteristics of TB patients in Puducherry and two districts of Tamil Nadu, India and calculate the population attributable fractions (PAF) of TB from malnutrition and alcohol. New smear-positive TB cases were enrolled into the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tub...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2017-08, Vol.12 (8), p.e0183195-e0183195
Hauptverfasser:	Hochberg, Natasha S, Sarkar, Sonali, Horsburgh, Jr, C Robert, Knudsen, Selby, Pleskunas, Jane, Sahu, Swaroop, Kubiak, Rachel W, Govindarajan, S, Salgame, Padmini, Lakshminarayanan, Subitha, Sivaprakasam, Amsaveni, White, Laura F, Joseph, Noyal Maria, Ellner, Jerrold J, Roy, Gautam
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Alcoholic beverages Alcoholism Biology and Life Sciences Body mass Body mass index Census Comorbidity Complications and side effects Data processing Diabetes Disease prevention Epidemics Female Females Forecasts and trends Health education Humans India - epidemiology Infectious diseases Intervention Male Males Malnutrition Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Men Middle Aged People and Places Physical Sciences Physicians Population Public health R&D Research & development Research and Analysis Methods Risk analysis Risk factors Smear Surveys and Questionnaires Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - complications Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	We aimed to define characteristics of TB patients in Puducherry and two districts of Tamil Nadu, India and calculate the population attributable fractions (PAF) of TB from malnutrition and alcohol. New smear-positive TB cases were enrolled into the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT India) cohort. Census and National Family Health Survey data were used for comparisons. Data were analyzed for 409 participants enrolled between May 2014-June 2016; 307 (75.1%) were male, 60.2% were malnourished (body mass index [BMI]
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0183195