{"id":365,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/reduced-levels-of-zinc-in-pulmonary-tuberculosis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:56:02","slug":"reduced-levels-of-zinc-in-pulmonary-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/reduced-levels-of-zinc-in-pulmonary-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced levels of zinc in pulmonary tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study investigated the blood levels of zinc in tuberculosis patients, with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-tuberculosis therapy. 50 tuberculosis patients and 30 healthy participants were included and tested for their zinc levels. The authors found that zinc can boost the immune system if applied during the course of treatment, thereby enhancing its effectiveness. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Hassan Ghulam,\u00a0Syed Manzoor Kadri,\u00a0Ahmad Manzoor,\u00a0Qureshi Waseem,\u00a0Mohammad Syed Aatif,\u00a0Ghulam Qadir Khan,\u00a0Kak Manish<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19759506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study investigated the blood levels of zinc in tuberculosis patients, with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-tuberculosis therapy. 50 tuberculosis patients and 30 healthy participants were included and tested for their zinc levels. The authors found that zinc can boost the immune system if applied during the course of treatment, thereby&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":[1352,1348,1349,1353,1354,1350,1351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}