Body Mass Index Trajectories and Association With Tuberculosis Risk in a Cohort of Household Contacts in Southern Africa
Declining BMI, regardless of absolute value, is a strong predictor of tuberculosis among household contacts. Longitudinal measurements should be considered in active case finding among tuberculosis-affected households.
Authors
- Denise Banze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5731-9440)
- Junior Mutsvangwa
- Alfred Mfinanga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2235-554X)
- Joseph Jacob (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8054-2293)
- Leyla Larsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-4630)
- Francisco Arnalich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2943-0373)
- Phoebe Walsh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6584-3111)
- Katharina Kranzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-7270)
- Patrick Lungu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6349-1885)
- Celso Khosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6701-4202)
- Anita Mesić (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-6380)
- Kathrin Held (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7057-6935)
- Michael Lauseker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6662-7127)
- Claire Calderwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-7464)
- Rishi K Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6257-1285)
- Edson Marambire (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5944-5010)
- Norbert Heinrich
- Lilian Tina Minja (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9597-0207)
- Madhavi Bhargava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-566X)
- Karlos Madziva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2379-0219)
Institutions
- Yenepoya University (IN)
- Zimmer Biomet (Netherlands) (NL)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (DE)
- LMU Klinikum (DE)
- Mbeya University of Science and Technology (TZ)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Biomedical Research and Training Institute (ZW)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (DE)
- German Center for Infection Research (DE)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (GB)
- Instituto Nacional de Saúde (MZ)
- East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (TZ)
- National Institute for Medical Research (TZ)
- University College London (GB)
- Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (BE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf222
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.36
Funders
- Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung
- Wellcome Trust
- European Commission
- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership