Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Clinical Infectious Diseases2008Vol. 46(3), pp. 443–446
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Katherine B. Gibney, Lachlan MacGregor, Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Caroline Marshall, Peter R. Ebeling, Beverley‐Ann Biggs
Abstract
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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