Impact of Vitamin D in the Treatment of Tuberculosis

@article{Luong2011ImpactOV,
  title={Impact of Vitamin D in the Treatment of Tuberculosis},
  author={K. Luong and L. Nguyễn},
  journal={The American Journal of the Medical Sciences},
  year={2011},
  volume={341},
  pages={493-498}
}
  • K. Luong, L. Nguyễn
  • Published 2011
  • Medicine
  • The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
    • Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem and often coincides with nutritional deficiency. In fact, vitamin D deficiency has been reported among TB patients, and vitamin D receptor polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. High doses of vitamin D were widely used to treat TB patients in the preantibiotic era. This approach was successful: vitamin D can suppress intracellular growth of M tuberculosis in vitro. Vitamin D also induced the expression… CONTINUE READING
    View on Wolters Kluwer
    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    22 Citations
    Background Citations
    8

    Topics from this paper

    Explore Further: Topics Discussed in This Paper

    22 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Vitamin D and tuberculosis
    Vitamin D in Oncology
    • J. Arends
    • Medicine
    • Complementary Medicine Research
    • 2011
    • 11
    The effects of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs on the actions of vitamin D in human macrophages
    • 13
    • PDF
    Vitamin D status in pediatric osteoarticular tuberculosis.
    • 3
    Influence of vitamin D deficiency on T cell subsets and related indices during spinal tuberculosis
    • 3
    • PDF
    Avaliação das concentrações de vitamina D associadas a polimorfismos em genes ligados a resposta imune durante a tuberculose pulmonar ativa
    • PDF
    Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults in the coastal regions of Odisha, India
    • 3
    • PDF
    Vitamin D and liver fibrosis: Molecular mechanisms and clinical studies.
    • 14
    Host Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis: Futures Strategies for an Ancient Disease
    • 29
    Vitamin D Supplementation: What's Known, What to Do, and What's Needed
    • 50

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 131 REFERENCES
    Vitamin D as Adjunctive Therapy in Refractory Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Case Report
    • 17
    Reactivation of tuberculosis and vitamin D deficiency: the contribution of diet and exposure to sunlight
    • 110
    • PDF
    Vitamin D Deficiency and Tuberculosis Progression
    • 165
    • PDF
    Meta-analysis of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and pulmonary tuberculosis risk.
    • S. Lewis, I. Baker, G. Davey Smith
    • Medicine
    • The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • 2005
    • 98
    Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
    • K. Gibney, L. MacGregor, +4 authors B. Biggs
    • Medicine
    • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
    • 2008
    • 211
    • PDF
    Tuberculosis and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Africans and variation in the vitamin D receptor gene.
    • 440
    • PDF
    The beneficial role of vitamin D and its analogs in cancer treatment and prevention.
    • 28
    Vitamin D as supplementary treatment for tuberculosis: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
    • 379
    The effect of vitamin D as supplementary treatment in patients with moderately advanced pulmonary tuberculous lesion.
    • 259
    • PDF
    The effect of multi-vitamin/mineral supplementation on mortality during treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a randomised two-by-two factorial trial in Mwanza, Tanzania.
    • 107
    • PDF