Open AccessBurden of diabetes among patients with tuberculosis: 10-year experience from a tertiary care referral teaching hospital in South India
Author(s) -
Devasahayam Jesudas Christopher,
Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan,
Joy Sarojini Michael,
Balaji Veeraraghavan,
Marie Therese Manipadam,
David Tougeron,
Mayank Gupta,
Bijesh Yadav
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_111_19
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , tertiary referral hospital , diabetes mellitus , referral , retrospective cohort study , coinfection , tertiary care , extrapulmonary tuberculosis , observational study , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , mycobacterium tuberculosis , family medicine , pathology , endocrinology
Tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are converging epidemics, each worsening the morbidity of the other. A study of the prevalence of DM in TB patients assumes great importance.