A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and Diabetes Mellitus, HIV and Metabolic Syndrome, and the impact of globalization

BACKGROUND: Africa is facing a rapidly growing chronic non-communicable disease burden whilst at the same time experiencing continual high rates of infectious disease. It is well known that some infections increase the risk of certain chronic diseases and the converse. With an increasing dual burden...

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Autores principales: Young, Fiona, Critchley, Julia A, Johnstone, Lucy K, Unwin, Nigel C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2753337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-5-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2753337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-5-9

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