{"id":364,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/zinc-and-albumin-blood-levels-are-reduced-in-tuberculosis-patients\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:56:02","slug":"zinc-and-albumin-blood-levels-are-reduced-in-tuberculosis-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/zinc-and-albumin-blood-levels-are-reduced-in-tuberculosis-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc and albumin blood levels are reduced in tuberculosis patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>The present study estimated the blood levels of zinc and albumin (protein) in tuberculosis patients with and without HIV and compared them with the levels in healthy family members. The results showed that zinc and albumin levels were significantly low in tuberculosis patients \u2013 irrespective of their HIV status \u2013 and that both levels were even lower in patients who were infected with HIV. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Kuppamuthu Ramakrishnan,\u00a0Rajaiah Shenbagarathai,\u00a0Karuppusamy Kavitha,\u00a0Alagappa Uma,\u00a0Ramakrishnan Balasubramaniam,\u00a0Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18503169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary The present study estimated the blood levels of zinc and albumin (protein) in tuberculosis patients with and without HIV and compared them with the levels in healthy family members. The results showed that zinc and albumin levels were significantly low in tuberculosis patients \u2013 irrespective of their HIV status \u2013 and that both levels&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}