Friday, November 29, 2024

Regional differences in the incidence of TB among patients with newly diagnosed DM [TB0129]

A South Korean retrospective cohort study utilized the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) database to investigate tuberculosis (TB) incidence among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. The cohort included individuals aged 20–89 years diagnosed with type 2 DM between January 1 and December 31, 2009, followed until December 2011.

The crude TB incidence rate among these patients was 3.7 per 1,000 individuals, with regional variations ranging from 2.3 to 5.9 per 1,000. However, the study did not identify significant factors to explain these regional differences.

Source: Yang, B.R., Kang, Y.A., Heo, E.Y., Koo, B.K., Choi, N.K., Hwang, S.S. and Lee, C.H., 2018. Regional differences in the incidence of tuberculosis among patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 12(4), pp.1732-1738.

 

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