Diabetes and tuberculosis: the impact of the diabetes epidemic on tuberculosis incidence

BACKGROUND: 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,...

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Auteurs principaux: Stevenson, Catherine R, Forouhi, Nita G, Roglic, Gojka, Williams, Brian G, Lauer, Jeremy A, Dye, Chirstopher, Unwin, Nigel
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2007
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001194/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17822539
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-234
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