Burden and Characteristics of the Comorbidity Tuberculosis-Diabetes in Europe: TBnet Prevalence Survey and Case-Control Study
Journal
Open forum infectious diseases
Date Issued
2019-01
Author(s)
Sane Schepisi, Monica
Navarra, Assunta
Altet Gomez, M Nieves
Dudnyk, Andrii
Dyrhol-Riise, Anne Margarita
Esteban, Jaime
Giorgetti, Pier Francesco
Gualano, Gina
Guglielmetti, Lorenzo
Heyckendorf, Jan
Kaluzhenina, Anna
Lange, Berit
Lange, Christoph
Manika, Katerina
Miah, Jalal
Pontali, Emanuele
Prego, Monica Rios
Solovic, Ivan
Tiberi, Simon
Palmieri, Fabrizio
Girardi, Enrico
DOI
10.1093/ofid/ofy337
Abstract
The growing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) is posing a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control. DM triples the risk of developing TB, modifies the presenting features of pulmonary TB, and worsens TB treatment outcomes. We aimed to analyze the prevalence of DM among TB patients and to describe the characteristics and clinical presentation of TB-DM patients in Europe.