Prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes and associated risk factors among tuberculosis patients in India.

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recognised as an important risk factor to tuberculosis (TB). India has high TB burden, along with rising DM prevalence. There are inadequate data on prevalence of DM and pre-diabetes among TB cases in India. Aim was to determine diabetes prevalence among a cohor...

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Main Authors: Vijay Viswanathan, Satyavani Kumpatla, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Rajeswari Rajan, C Chinnasamy, Rajan Srinivasan, Jerard Maria Selvam, Anil Kapur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3406054?pdf=render