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