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Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ›› 2020, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (3): 281-284.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2096-8493.2020.03.015

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Progress on changes of micronutrients and nutritional therapy of active pulmonary tuberculosis

WANG Le-le, YANG Song(), TANG Shen-jie()   

  1. Tuberculosis Research Lab,Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Chongqing 400036, China
  • Received:2020-08-06 Online:2020-12-30 Published:2021-01-05
  • Contact: YANG Song,TANG Shen-jie E-mail:yangsong5@aliyun.com;tangsj1106@vip.sina.com

Abstract:

Patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) exist protein-energy malnutrition, essential microelements and vitamins deficiency, and all of them are high risk factors of pathogenesis and progression of disease. There is an obvious two-way causal relationship between malnutrition and active PTB. But the proper attention is not yet paid to nutritional problems of tuberculosis, especially for deficiency of microelements and vitamins. Having referred to a lot of documents, the authors have done a deep review about the type, characteristics, the damage of malnutrition, and the benefits of nutrient supplement to the active PTB patients, in order to improve the level of awareness in clinical treatment of clinicians.

Key words: Tuberculosis,pulmonary, Malnutrition, Health status indicators, Nutritional support, Nutrition assessment, Review literature as topic