Diabetes and tuberculosis: the impact of the diabetes epidemic on tuberculosis incidence
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- 6 September 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 7 (1) , 234
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-234
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of mortality in developing countries, and in these countries diabetes prevalence is increasing rapidly. Diabetes increases the risk of TB. Our aim was to assess the potential impact of diabetes as a risk factor for incident pulmonary tuberculosis, using India as an example.Keywords
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