Global Epidemic of Diabetes is Threat to Progress in Tuberculosis Control

Global efforts to control and eliminate tuberculosis could be hampered with the rapid increase in rates of type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries where TB is endemic, suggests a new three-part Series about TB and diabetes, published in iThe Lancet Diabetes (and) Endocrinology/i. The Series indicates that 15% of adult TB cases worldwide are already attributable to diabetes. These diabetes-associated cases correspond to over 1 million cases a year, with ...

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