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OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON PERVALENCE OF DIABETES MELLITUS IN TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS

Neena Baby*, Basil Sunny, Harikesh Ramakrishnan, Eldho Jose, K Menaka, S. Hemalatha and T. Sivakumar

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Background: The link between diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis has been recognized for centuries. Increasing prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus is a challenging task for Tuberculosis management. Objective: The objective of the study includes comparison of diabetes prevalence among tuberculosis patients across age, sex, Body Mass Index, sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis and retreatment cases. Methods: The study was conducted at the Department of Pulmonology, in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Tamil Nadu for 4 months. All the patients diagnosed with tuberculosis including pulmonary tuberculosis and extra pulmonary tuberculosis was included in the study. Variables such as age, sex, height and weight were recorded for each patient. The significance of association of different factors was found out by chi-square test. A P-value of

Keywords: Tuberculosis; Diabetes Mellitus; Sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis.


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