Pre-treatment lost to follow up among presumptive tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care centre, South India
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Diabetes mellitus and smoking among tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care centre in Karnataka, India.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) and smoking are risk factors for adverse outcomes in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). In a tertiary care hospital at Belgaum in the South Indian State of Karnataka, all TB patients aged ≥18 years consecutively diagnosed from February to September 2012 were evaluated for DM and smoking. Of 307 TB patients, 35.5% were found to have DM, 9.8% were current smokers, and 3.6%...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2394-6040,2394-6032
DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202483