{"id":5619,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-and-zinc-improve-conventional-tuberculosis-treatment\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","slug":"vitamin-a-and-zinc-improve-conventional-tuberculosis-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-and-zinc-improve-conventional-tuberculosis-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A and zinc improve conventional tuberculosis treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>According to a study conducted by several research institutes in various countries, vitamin A and zinc supplementation increase the efficacy of standard antituberculosis therapy. Two groups of each 40 participants with newly diagnosed tuberculosis were involved in this study. One group received a supplement containing vitamin A and zinc; the other group received a placebo. Both groups additionally received the standard recommended antituberculosis therapy. Effects were measured before, after 2, and after 6 months of treatment. In conclusion, the efficacy of the conventional antituberculosis treatment was improved by the vitamin A and zinc supplement after 2 months. Please refer to the study for further details.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Karyadi et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/11916759\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary According to a study conducted by several research institutes in various countries, vitamin A and zinc supplementation increase the efficacy of standard antituberculosis therapy. Two groups of each 40 participants with newly diagnosed tuberculosis were involved in this study. One group received a supplement containing vitamin A and zinc; the other group received a&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\/5619"}],"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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}