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Diabetes and pre-diabetes among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in India: is it time to screen them all?

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37

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12

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2018

Year

Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, A. M. V. Kumar, Mandar Paradkar, Kavitha Dhanasekaran, N. Suryavarshini, Beena Thomas, Rewa Kohli, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Vandana Kulkarni, Luke Elizabeth Hannah,
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

Adult HHCs of TB patients in India have a high prevalence of undiagnosed DM, pre-DM and LTBI, putting them at high risk for developing TB. Routine DM screening should be considered among all adult HHCs of TB.

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