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Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a cause and effect of undernutrition. Patients with active TB in India have a high prevalence of severe undernutrition, an important comorbidity, which increases the risk of mortality, serious adverse effects, relapses after cure and impairs functional status. The World Health O...

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Autores principales: Bhargava, Madhavi, Bhargava, Anurag
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30911490
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_226_18
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is a cause and effect of undernutrition. Patients with active TB in India have a high prevalence of severe undernutrition, an important comorbidity, which increases the risk of mortality, serious adverse effects, relapses after cure and impairs functional status. The World Health Organization and Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme have now recommended that nutritional assessment, counseling, and support be considered as integral parts of TB care. Nutritional assessment requires calculations of body mass index (BMI) to classify severity of undernutrition at diagnosis and ascertain nutritional recovery at follow-up. We present BMI-based field charts constructed for use by healthcare workers which obviate calculations of BMI and provide weights corresponding to BMI categories, and body weight corresponding to a desirable BMI of 21 kg/m(2). These simplified BMI-based field charts will enable appropriate assessment, counseling, and monitoring of undernourished patients with active TB by peripheral health workers in programmatic settings.
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spelling pubmed-63965992019-03-25 Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis Bhargava, Madhavi Bhargava, Anurag J Family Med Prim Care Original Article Tuberculosis (TB) is a cause and effect of undernutrition. Patients with active TB in India have a high prevalence of severe undernutrition, an important comorbidity, which increases the risk of mortality, serious adverse effects, relapses after cure and impairs functional status. The World Health Organization and Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme have now recommended that nutritional assessment, counseling, and support be considered as integral parts of TB care. Nutritional assessment requires calculations of body mass index (BMI) to classify severity of undernutrition at diagnosis and ascertain nutritional recovery at follow-up. We present BMI-based field charts constructed for use by healthcare workers which obviate calculations of BMI and provide weights corresponding to BMI categories, and body weight corresponding to a desirable BMI of 21 kg/m(2). These simplified BMI-based field charts will enable appropriate assessment, counseling, and monitoring of undernourished patients with active TB by peripheral health workers in programmatic settings. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6396599/ /pubmed/30911490 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_226_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
title_full Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
title_fullStr Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
title_short Development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
title_sort development of simplified body mass index–based field charts to assess nutritional status and weight gain in adult patients with tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30911490
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_226_18
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