Nutritional Burden in Tuberculosis and Inter-sectoral Nutritional Management for Tuberculosis Patients in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Khalid Mokti, Zaleha Isa, Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, Firdaus Hayati, Syed Sharizman Syed Abd Rahim
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25665/1/Nutritional%20Burden%20in%20Tuberculosis%20and%20Inter-sectoral%20Nutritional%20Management%20for%20Tuberculosis%20Patients%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25665/2/Nutritional%20Burden%20in%20Tuberculosis%20and%20Inter-sectoral%20Nutritional%20Management%20for%20Tuberculosis%20Patients%20in%20Malaysia1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25665/; https://doi.org/10.5336/medsci.2019-70810

Undernutrition and tuberculosis (TB) are a vital issue in most developing countries of the world. Both of these medical problems tend to have interacted with each other and bidirectional. The undernutrition creates a more significant problem in patients with active TB rather than among healthy indiv...