Characteristics of patients with diabetes screened for tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital in South India

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Authors

Satyavani Kumpatla · M.V. Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre

A. Sekar · M.V. Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre

Shanta Achanta · World Health Organization - India

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja · Employees State Insurance Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research

A. M. V. Kumar

Anthony Harries · University of London

Vijay Viswanathan ·

Abstract

Screening of DM patients for TB was feasible in a tertiary care hospital. The yield of new TB cases was low and merits further investigation. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were different in patients with DM and TB compared to those with DM only.

Topics & Keywords

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Chronic Disease Management Strategies Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Public Health Action

Volume 3, Issue Supplement 1, pp. 23-28

DOI: 10.5588/pha.13.0035

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