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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Autores principales: Stevenson, Catherine R, Forouhi, Nita G, Roglic, Gojka, Williams, Brian G, Lauer, Jeremy A, Dye, Chirstopher, Unwin, Nigel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17822539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-234

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17822539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-234

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