Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa | Zendy

Katherine B. Gibney | Zendy; Lachlan MacGregor | Zendy; Karin Leder | Zendy; Joseph Torresi | Zendy; Caroline Marshall | Zendy; Peter R. Ebeling | Zendy; BeverleyAnn Biggs | Zendy

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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa

Author(s) -

Katherine B. Gibney,

Lachlan MacGregor,

Karin Leder,

Joseph Torresi,

Caroline Marshall,

Peter R. Ebeling,

BeverleyAnn Biggs

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/525268

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , latent tuberculosis , medicine , mycobacterium tuberculosis , immigration , vitamin d and neurology , immunology , vitamin d deficiency , active tuberculosis , pathology , geography , archaeology

Among African immigrants in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, we demonstrated lower geometric mean vitamin D levels in immigrants with latent tuberculosis infection than in those with no Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (P=.007); such levels were also lower in immigrants with tuberculosis or past tuberculosis than in those with latent tuberculosis infection (P=.001). Higher vitamin D levels were associated with lower probability of any M. tuberculosis infection (P=.001) and lower probability of tuberculosis or past tuberculosis (compared with latent tuberculosis infection; P=.001).

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