Authors :
Khem Raj
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 1 - January
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7588400
Abstract :
Diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis are chronic
diseases and their association is existing for thousands of
years, although association is not causal, but precipitating
to each other. As systemic reviews of many global databases
suggest that diabetes mellitus increases the risk of
tuberculosis three times & tuberculosis impaires the glucose
tolerance levels (GTT), which in turn can lead to prediabetic stage & then diabetes mellitus. as per WHO report
of 2014 there were 422 millions of diabetes mellitus cases in
the world. It's likely to reach 624 millions by 2040 . There
are 14.6 millions of tuberculosis cases & around 1.6 millions
tuberculosis patients die each yr. Global databases suggests
that there are 15% diabetics are associated with
tuberculosis & 80-90%diabetic and tuberculosis patients
are found in developing countries due to poverty,
malnutrition, poor health & sanitation, political instability
& govt's lackadaisical attitude. present strategy for
screening, diagnosis & management of TB and diabetes
mellitus is not halting the progression of Tuberculosis
&diabetes, so we have to devise new strategy based on
research and latest technology to deal with combo
challenges, we have to make it compulsory for bidirectional
screening, proper diagnosis & treatment & complete follow
up of all the cases.
Diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis are chronic
diseases and their association is existing for thousands of
years, although association is not causal, but precipitating
to each other. As systemic reviews of many global databases
suggest that diabetes mellitus increases the risk of
tuberculosis three times & tuberculosis impaires the glucose
tolerance levels (GTT), which in turn can lead to prediabetic stage & then diabetes mellitus. as per WHO report
of 2014 there were 422 millions of diabetes mellitus cases in
the world. It's likely to reach 624 millions by 2040 . There
are 14.6 millions of tuberculosis cases & around 1.6 millions
tuberculosis patients die each yr. Global databases suggests
that there are 15% diabetics are associated with
tuberculosis & 80-90%diabetic and tuberculosis patients
are found in developing countries due to poverty,
malnutrition, poor health & sanitation, political instability
& govt's lackadaisical attitude. present strategy for
screening, diagnosis & management of TB and diabetes
mellitus is not halting the progression of Tuberculosis
&diabetes, so we have to devise new strategy based on
research and latest technology to deal with combo
challenges, we have to make it compulsory for bidirectional
screening, proper diagnosis & treatment & complete follow
up of all the cases.
