According to the findings of the Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement of Nutritional Status (RATIONS) trial, improved nutrition can reduce the incidence of all forms of TB by up to 40 per cent.
New evidence from Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement of Nutritional Status (RATIONS) trial shows that improved nutrition among contacts of patients with infectious lung TB can reduce the incidence of all forms of TB by 40 per cent and of infectious TB by nearly 50 per cent. Significantly, it also found that early weight gain in underweight patients with TB can reduce their risk of mortality by 60 per cent
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Health researchers describe the study in Jharkhand as world’s first to directly demonstrate efficacy of rice, split pigeon pea, and multivitamins to prevent TB cases among people at high risk of the infection
A monthly food basket with adequate protein and multivitamins can reduce new tuberculosis cases by nearly half among family members of TB patients in India, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.