%0 Journal Article
%T Male gender and duration of anti-tuberculosis treatment are associated with hypocholesterolemia in adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Kampala, Uganda
%A Ali Sam
%A Annet Nalutaaya
%A Ezekiel Mupere
%A Ismael Kawooya
%A Jean Nyamwiza
%A Joan Nangendo
%A Ronald Ssenyonga
%A William Worodria
%J Archive of "African Health Sciences".
%D 2018
%R 10.4314/ahs.v18i3.3
%X Patients with Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and hypocholesterolemia have an altered immune function, delayed sputum conversion at two months and increased mortality. However, the assessment for dyslipidemias is not often done in our setting
%K Hypocholesterolemia
%K pulmonary tuberculosis
%K duration of anti-tuberculosis treatment
%K gender
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6307033/