Erschienen in:
27.05.2017 | Editorial
Diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis—a double whammy
verfasst von:
S. V. Madhu
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
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Ausgabe 2/2017
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Excerpt
India has the second highest prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the world with over 69.2 million diabetes subjects [
1]. So also, India accounts for a significant proportion of cases of tuberculosis in the world. It is also estimated that the highest number of cases of tuberculosis associated with diabetes are reported from India and a large proportion of diabetic patients in our country suffer from tuberculosis [
2‐
4]. This suggests a huge double burden of diabetes and tuberculosis in our country. …