Smoking increases the risk of relapse after successful tuberculosis treatment | Zendy

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Smoking increases the risk of relapse after successful tuberculosis treatment

Author(s) -

Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista,

Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão de Albuquerque,

Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes,

Laura C. Rodrigues

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn113

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , socioeconomic status , confounding , smoking cessation , cohort , risk factor , cohort study , pediatrics , population , environmental health , pathology

Recent tobacco smoking has been identified as a risk factor for developing tuberculosis, and two studies which have investigated its association with relapse of tuberculosis after completion of treatment had conflicting results (and did not control for confounding). The objective of this study was to investigate risk factors for tuberculosis relapse, with emphasis on smoking.

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