Impact of Undernutrition on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in India: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Analysis.
Pranay SinhaChinnaiyan PonnurajaNikhil GupteSenbagavalli Prakash BabuSamyra R CoxSonali SarkarVidya MaveMandar ParadkarChelsie CintronS GovindarajanAarti KinikarNadesan PriyaSanjay GaikwadBalamugesh ThangakunamArutselvi DevarajanMythili DhanasekaranJeffrey A TornheimAmita GuptaPadmini SalgameDevashyam Jesudas ChristopherHardy KornfeldVijay ViswanathanJerrold J EllnerC Robert HorsburghAkshay N GupteChandrasekaran PadmapriyadarsiniNatasha S HochbergPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Premorbid undernutrition, undernutrition at treatment initiation, lack of BMI increase after intensive therapy, and severe stunting are associated with unfavorable TB treatment outcomes. These data highlight the need for addressing this widely prevalent TB comorbidity. Nutritional assessment should be integrated into standard TB care.