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Comparative Study
. 1989 Sep;117(9):979-83.

[Tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal-retrospective study in a teaching hospital]

[Article in Spanish]
P Olmos, J Donoso, N Rojas, P Landeros, R Schurmann, G Retamal, M Meza, C Martinez
  • PMID: 2519480
Comparative Study

[Tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal-retrospective study in a teaching hospital]

[Article in Spanish]
P Olmos et al. Rev Med Chil. 1989 Sep.

Abstract

We analyzed 1529 diabetic patients seen between 1959 and 1982 at a teaching hospital in Concepción, Chile. 116 of them were insulin dependent diabetics. Gestational diabetes was excluded. The 10 year actuarial risk of acquiring tuberculosis was 24.2% for insulin-dependent diabetics and 4.8% for the rest (p less than 0.001). The risk of the diabetic population as a whole was 5.9% compared to 0.8% for the population at large. Thus, diabetics are a high risk group for tuberculosis, especially insulin-dependent patients whose risk is about 38 times higher than the general population under 40 years of age.

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