%0 Journal Article
%T Changes in cholesterol level correlate with the course of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease
%A Chang Youl Lee
%A Go Eun Yang
%A Ji Young Hong
%A Ki-Suck Jung
%A Myung Goo Lee
%A Sung Hoon Park
%A Yong Bum Park
%A Yousang Ko
%A Yun Su Sim
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2016
%R 10.21037/jtd.2016.10.75
%X The incidence of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (PNTM) disease is increasing in many regions of the world (1-3). PNTM disease frequently occurs in slender middle-aged and older females (4). Patients with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease have a small visceral fat area and low nutrient intake (5). BMI as a marker for nutritional assessment is correlated with disease spread (6). Nutritional assessment is thus important in PNTM disease
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