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Diabetes Mellitus, Smoking Status, and Rate of Sputum Culture Conversion in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Cohort Study from the Country of Georgia

Matthew J. Magee, Russell R. Kempker, Maia Kipiani, Nestani Tukvadze, Penelope P. Howards, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Henry M. Blumberg

PLoS ONE · 2014 · 56 citations · 22 references

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In adjusted analyses, DM did not impact culture conversion rates in a clinically meaningful way but smoking did.

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Causal Diagrams for Epidemiologic Research

Sander Greenland, Judea Pearl, James M. Robins · Epidemiology · 1999 · 3.5K citations

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Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions for Heart Disease in Eight U.S. Counties

Epidemiology · 1999 · 3.1K citations

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Maternal Pesticide Exposure from Multiple Sources and Selected Congenital Anomalies

Gary M. Shaw, Cathy R. Wasserman, Cynthia D. O’Malley et al. · Epidemiology · 1999 · 1.8K citations

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Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text

Mark Carpenter · Technometrics · 1997 · 1.4K citations

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Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a threat to global control of tuberculosis

Neel R. Gandhi, Paul Nunn, Keertan Dheda et al. · The Lancet · 2010 · 1K citations

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