CORRELATION BETWEEN TUBERCULOSIS AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS AMONG CHILDREN IN NORTH LOMBOK, WEST NUSA TENGGARA, INDONESIA
Putu Indah Budi Apsari, Bela Siska Afrida, Melissa Ronaldi, I Nyoman Supadma
Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences, Warmadewa University
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition are the main causes of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries. Tuberculosis become worse if there are present of malnutrition. In contrary, malnutrition can be caused by chronic inflammatory disease such as TB. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between tuberculosis and nutritional status among children in North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This cross sectional study recruited child TB aged under 18 years as participants. TB was diagnosed by TB scoring in Children, Tuberculin Test, Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) and Thorax Photos, and nutritional status was assessed using Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chart. Total 130 children were identified, 65 children with TB and 65 healthy children as control. This study showed that pulmonary TB was present in 72.3% of case, Lymphadenitis TB was 16%, and mixed pulmonary and lymphadenitis TB were 2%. Under-nutrition child was found in 63.1% of cases, malnutrition child was found in 29.2% of cases. There was significant correlation between tuberculosis and malnutrition among children (p<0.05). The highest proportion of TB was in children under five years (52.3%). TB is strongly correlated with malnutrition among children.
Keywords: malnutrition, tuberculosis, children
Topic: Biology