Biochemical changes in tuberculosis patients with different somatic types

In 100 patients with various types of pulmonary tuberculosis who were residents in Eastern Siberia, somatic types and glucose postload sugar curves and immunological status were studied and the findings were compared with the specific features of the process and its dynamics during chemotherapy. Thoracomuscular and thoracogracial somatic types were found in two thirds of cases among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Persons with these somatic types developed chiefly infiltrative tuberculosis. Uncorrectable abnormalities in the sugar curves were detected in all somatic types in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Most substantial carbohydrate metabolic changes (curves of the rigid pattern) are associated with the asthenic constitution. Immunological changes are unassociated with the type of constitution.