Diabetes and risk of tuberculosis relapse: nationwide nested case-control study.

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) relapse using the nationwide TB registry in Taiwan. We conducted a case-control study nested within a nationwide cohort of all incident cases of pulmonary TB that were notified during 2006-2...

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Main Authors: Pin-Hui Lee, Hui-Chen Lin, Angela Song-En Huang, Sung-Hsi Wei, Mei-Shu Lai, Hsien-Ho Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3963913?pdf=render