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Clinical management of concurrent diabetes and tuberculosis and the implications for patient services [1]

Diabetes triples the risk for active tuberculosis, thus the increasing burden of type 2 diabetes will help to sustain the present tuberculosis epidemic. Recommendations have been made for bidirectional screening, but evidence is scarce about the performance of specific tuberculosis tests in individuals with diabetes, specific diabetes tests in patients with tuberculosis, and screening and preventive therapy for latent tuberculosis infections in individuals with diabetes. Clinical management of patients with both diseases can be difficult.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2014
Anca Lelia Riza [2], Fiona Pearson [3], Cesar Ugarte-Gil & et al [4]
Lancet [5]
2
9
740 - 753
Tags:
Diabetes [6], Tuberculosis [7], Epidemics [8], Health Care [9], Health Policy [10], Drugs [11], Africa [12], Asia [13], Diagnostic Methods [14]
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