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Published on: September 5, 2017
[Pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus. A clinical analysis of 42 cases]
Abstract:
From 1978 to 1987, 1852 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) and 702 cases of diabetes mellitus (DM) were admitted to our hospital. Among them, 42 cases had both PT and DM. The morbidity of DM among the 1852 cases of PT was 2.3%. The morbidity of PT among the 702 DM patients was 6.0% which was 9.4 times higher than that among the local population at the same period. Most (83.3%) of the 42 cases with both PT and DM were above 40 years of age, and their fatality rate was 28.6%. The interrelationship between DM and PT was discussed.
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