Abstract
Aim: Comparison of nutritional status of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) combined with DM and without it.
Methods: We studied 114 patients with TB combined with DM. The comparison group involved 131 patients with TB without DM. Nutritional status was assessed by body mass index(BMI), transthyretin(TTR), serum total protein(TP) and serum albumin (A).
Results: The BMI in patients with TB with DM was higher than the norm and comparison group. The level of TTR was less than the norm in both group of patients, but in patients with TB with DM the level of TTR decreased very significantly (accordingly 19,6±1,0 and 26,0±0,7 mg/dl at the norm of 33,4±1,08 mg/dl). The level of TP was less than the norm in patients TB combined with DM and did not change in patients TB without DM. The level of albumin was normal in patients TB combined with DM.(42.6±0,5 g/l at the norm of 41,0±0,7 g/l) and less than the norm in patients without DM (37,6±0,3 g/l at the norm of 41,0±0,7 g/l).
Conclusions: The quantitative analysis of nutritional status has confirmed that TB patient with concomitant DM is characterized by an increase in BMI in the background of deficiency of protein. Sensitive indicator of nutritional status in patients TB combined with DM was level of TTR.
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2019; 54: Suppl. 63, PA2966.
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