{"id":255428,"date":"2023-08-09T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255428"},"modified":"2023-08-09T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:33:46","slug":"trial-done-in-india-shows-nutrition-support-prevents-tb-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trial-done-in-india-shows-nutrition-support-prevents-tb-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cTrial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <strong>T<\/strong><\/span><b>he Hindu on 9th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trial conducted in India highlights the importance of nutritional supplementation in significantly reducing the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among household contacts of TB patients and lowering mortality rates in those diagnosed with active pulmonary TB.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the importance of nutrition in tuberculosis (TB)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undernutrition accounts for more than 40% of new TB cases annually surpassing other risk factors like diabetes, HIV infection, smoking and alcohol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, research by the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) demonstrated that TB patients weighing under 35 kg had four times higher mortality than those weighing over 45 kg.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the study conducted by researchers to highlight the importance of nutrition in tuberculosis (TB)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>The study was conducted on two groups: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">household contacts of TB patients and patients diagnosed with active pulmonary TB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In a controlled trial with family members of TB patients<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, providing nutritional support resulted in a 39-48% decrease in TB cases compared to those without support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers also provided nutritional supplementation to 2,800 <\/span><b>individuals undergoing treatment for active pulmonary TB.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Treatment success rate was nearly 94% among TB patients, with only about 4% deaths during the six-month follow-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Early weight gain in the first two months was linked to a 60% lower risk of TB-related mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTrial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths\u201d \u00a0published in The Hindu on 9th August 2023. What is the News? A trial conducted in India highlights the importance of nutritional supplementation in significantly reducing the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among household contacts of TB&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trial-done-in-india-shows-nutrition-support-prevents-tb-related-deaths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-255428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}