The Impact of Vitamin A and Carotenoids on the Risk of Tuberculosis Progression
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6 a Division of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at 7 Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA 8 b Division of Infectious Diseases, The Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at 9 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 10 c Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 11 Massachusetts, USA 12 d Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s 13 Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 14 e Partners In Health, Socios En Salud Sucursal Peru, Lima, Peru 15 f Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 16 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 17 g Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 18 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 19 h Department of Nutrition, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, USA 20
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Impact of Vitamin A and Carotenoids on the Risk of Tuberculosis Progression
Background Low and deficient levels of vitamin A are common in low- and middle-income countries where tuberculosis burden is high. We assessed the impact of baseline levels of vitamin A and carotenoids on tuberculosis disease risk. Methods We conducted a case-control study nested within a longitudinal cohort of household contacts (HHCs) of pulmonary tuberculosis case patients in Lima, Peru. W...
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