Publications by authors named "Tingyan Kou"
Background And Objectives: Diabetes mellitus (DM) leads to nearly 3-fold higher risk of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), indicating an increasing challenge to public health in low-to-middle income countries. Till now, the risk factor is still uncertain. We carried out this study with the main purpose to identify the risk factors of having TB in DM patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The effect of soy products on the weight of overweight or obese people is controversial, so we aimed to conduct a systematic review and a meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials to analyze whether supplementation with soy products can help them to lose weight.
Methods: The relevant data before January 2019 in PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library were searched. A random-effect model was adopted to calculate the weighted average difference of net changes of body weight, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, fat mass, waist circumference, etc.
Article Synopsis
- Scientists in Shandong studied how sleep quality affects the risk of getting tuberculosis (TB) in people with diabetes from January to December 2017.
- They compared 79 patients who had both diabetes and TB to 169 people who only had diabetes and found that poor sleep might make TB more likely.
- Particularly, people with diabetes for over 5 years and poor sleep quality had more than three times the risk of getting TB. This shows that improving sleep could help control TB in these patients.
Epidemiology studies have investigated the association between vitamin D and the risk of sleep disorders, but the results remain controversial. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis with the goal of clarifying the association between vitamin D and sleep disorders risk. All relevant studies were searched using PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science from inception to January 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of soybean protein on blood pressure (BP) in postmenopausal women is controversial, so we aimed to conduct a systematic review and a meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to investigate whether supplementation with soy protein improves their blood pressure. PubMed and Embase were searched up to February 2016. Weighted mean differences were calculated for net changes in BP by using fixed-effect or random-effect models.
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- Tuberculosis (TB) patients, especially those with diabetes (DM), commonly experience severe vitamin D deficiency (VDD), which may worsen TB progression.
- A study involving 461 active TB patients found that 83.1% had VDD, with 47.1% exhibiting severe VDD; factors affecting vitamin D levels included diabetes, outdoor activity, and TB severity.
- Key predictors of severe VDD were a high severity of TB symptoms, low outdoor activity, and insufficient fish consumption, indicating that vitamin D status can influence TB risks, particularly in diabetic patients.