{"id":354,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/tuberculosis-patients-have-low-levels-of-trace-elements\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","slug":"tuberculosis-patients-have-low-levels-of-trace-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/tuberculosis-patients-have-low-levels-of-trace-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis patients have low levels of trace elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study evaluated blood levels of trace elements (copper, zinc, selenium and iron) in tuberculosis patients with or without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A total of 155 patients with tuberculosis, including 74 patients suffering from HIV, and 31 healthy participants were investigated. The results indicated that tuberculosis patients had reduced levels of trace elements in their blood. Although required in very small amounts, trace elements are essential for maintaining health. They cannot be synthesized by the human body and as such, they must be provided through the diet. Further research details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>A Kassu,\u00a0T Yabutani,\u00a0Z H Mahmud,\u00a0A Mohammad,\u00a0N Nguyen,\u00a0B T M Huong,\u00a0G Hailemariam,\u00a0E Diro,\u00a0B Ayele,\u00a0Y Wondmikun,\u00a0J Motonaka,\u00a0F Ota<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16340948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study evaluated blood levels of trace elements (copper, zinc, selenium and iron) in tuberculosis patients with or without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A total of 155 patients with tuberculosis, including 74 patients suffering from HIV, and 31 healthy participants were investigated. The results indicated that tuberculosis patients had reduced levels of trace elements&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[1305,1304,1303,1302,1297,1299,1300,1307,1301,1308,1306,1298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}