Lean Tissue Mass Wasting is Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality among Women with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Urban Uganda

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the impact of wasting on survival in tuberculosis patients using precise height-normalized lean tissue mass index (LMI) estimated by bioelectrical impedance analysis and body mass index (BMI). METHODS: In a retrospective cohort study, 747 adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients...

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Main Authors: Mupere, Ezekiel, Malone, LaShaunda, Zalwango, Sarah, Chiunda, Allan, Okwera, Alphonse, Parraga, Isabel, Stein, Catherine M., Tisch, Daniel J., Mugerwa, Roy, Boom, W. Henry, Mayanja, Harriet, Whalen, Christopher C.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: 2012
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377556/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22575813
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.04.007
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