Diabetes mellitus among patients attending TB clinics in Dar es Salaam: a descriptive cross-sectional study
Citation: Munseri, P.J., Kimambo, H. & Pallangyo, K. Diabetes mellitus among patients attending TB clinics in Dar es Salaam: a descriptive cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis 19, 915 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4539-5
Abstract: A bi-directional interaction between diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis is well established and has been likened to that between HIV and TB. Whereas HIV screening is standard of care test in sub Saharan Africa TB programs, the same is not true for diabetes mellitus (DM). Sub Saharan Africa, a region with high TB infection rates, is going through an epidemiological transition with rapidly rising prevalence of diabetes.

The authors aimed at characterizing TB patients with DM in order to identify factors associated with TB-DM dual disease among patients attending TB clinics in Dar es Salaam.
Author(s): BMC Infectious Diseases
Year: 2019
Language: English
Region(s): TANZANIA
Resource Type: Journal Articles
Source: Other
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