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Zinc and vitamin A supplementation fails to reduce sputum conversion time in severely malnourished pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Indonesia

BACKGROUND: A previous study showed that combination of zinc and vitamin A reduced sputum conversion time in pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients. OBJECTIVE: We studied the efficacy of which single micronutrient contributed more to the sputum conversion time. METHODS: In a double-blind randomized co...

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Autores principales: Pakasi, Trevino A, Karyadi, Elvina, Suratih, Ni Made Desy, Salean, Michael, Darmawidjaja, Nining, Bor, Hans, van der Velden, Koos, Dolmans, Wil MV, van der Meer, Jos WM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20920186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-9-41
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: A previous study showed that combination of zinc and vitamin A reduced sputum conversion time in pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients. OBJECTIVE: We studied the efficacy of which single micronutrient contributed more to the sputum conversion time. METHODS: In a double-blind randomized community trial, newly sputum smear positive pulmonary TB patients were assigned randomly to receive zinc, vitamin A, zinc + vitamin A or placebo on top of TB treatment. Patients were asked to deliver their sputum on weekly basis to measure positivity of the bacteria. Nutritional status, chest x-ray, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein (CRP), retinol and zinc level were examined prior to, after 2 and 6 months of treatment. RESULTS: Initially, 300 patients were enrolled, and 255 finished the treatment. Most patients were severely malnourished (mean BMI 16.5 ± 2.2 Kg/m(2)). Patients in the zinc + vitamin A group showed earlier sputum conversion time (mean 1.9 weeks) compared with that in the other groups; however the difference was not significant. Also, no benefit could be demonstrated of any of the used supplementations on clinical, nutritional, chest x-ray, or laboratory findings. CONCLUSIONS: This study among severely malnourished TB patients, did not confirm that single or combined supplementation of zinc and vitamin A significantly reduced sputum conversion time or had other significant benefit.