14 Jun Anaemia in Patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in South Africa: Predictive/prognostic value, aetiologies and treatment

Authored by: Andrew D. Kerkhoff
Thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam
Promotores: F.G.J. Cobelens, S.D. Lawn
Date of thesis defense: 21/06/2016

Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide. This thesis found that moderate or severe anaemia was highly predictive of both prevalent and incident tuberculosis among ambulatory outpatients as well as hospitalised in-patients in South Africa and was also a very strong independent predictor of mortality. Read more