Sex Disparity in Severity of Lung Lesions in Newly Identified Tuberculosis Is Age-Associated

Sex Disparity in Severity of Lung Lesions in Newly Identified Tuberculosis Is Age-Associated

Background: The age-associated characteristic of computed tomography (CT) images of tuberculosis (TB) and the reason for male bias in TB are still not clear.Methods: We compared the CT images, clinical inflammatory indices and sputum bacterial counts between 594 non-smoking men and women with newly...

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Main Authors: Yue Chu, Adiilah K. Soodeen-Lalloo, Jin Huang, Guanghong Yang, Fengfang Chen, Hongyun Yin, Wei Sha, Xiaochen Huang, Jingyun Shi, Yonghong Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
tuberculosis
sex bias
computed tomography
complement C4
BMI
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2019.00163/full

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