Beyond drugs: TB patients in Bangladesh need urgent attention for nutrition support during convalescence
Year: 2013
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a global disease, which is responsible for 1.4 million deaths each \nyear (WHO 2010). Bangladesh is the sixth highest TB-burden country in the world. TB \ntreatment may be complicated when malnutrition also coexists in patients. TB has \nbeen found to coexist with malnutrition among patients at the beginning of treatment in \nboth developed and developing countries (Zachariah eta/. 2002, Onwubalili JK 1988, \nKennedy et at. 1996, Harries et a/. 1988). Nutrition supplementation can play an \nimportant role in improving the disease condition to reduce further morbidity and \nmortality. Some TB-burden countries have already started food supplementation \nprogramme for patients' healthy life (Farmer eta/. 1991, Karyadi et a/. 2002, Paton et \na/. 2004, Aye and Wyss 2009). \nThere is no nutrition intervention programme for patients in DOTS (Directly \nobserved treatment, short course) approach to TB treatment under National TB \nControl Programme (NTP) of Bangladesh, where malnutrition is prevalent. Even, \nBangladesh does not have much information about the nutritional situation of TB \npatients to formulate nutrition intervention. To fill-in this knowledge gap and help in \ninformed design of a nutrition intervention for TB patients, this study measured the \nnutritional status (using Body Mass Index or BMI) of TB patients before, at two \nmonths, and after completion of TB treatment (DOTS) to study the changes during \ntreatment and its relation with various socioeconomic and demographic factors \nincluding household food availability and consumption.
Authors: Qazi Shafayetul Islam, Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Akramul Islam, Kamruzzaman Kamruzzaman, Mahfuza Rifat
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2995844404