%0 Journal Article
%T Burden and Characteristics of the Comorbidity Tuberculosis¡ªDiabetes in Europe: TBnet Prevalence Survey and Case-Control Study
%A Andrii Dudnyk
%A Anna Kaluzhenina
%A Anne Margarita Dyrhol-Riise
%A Assunta Navarra
%A Berit Lange
%A Christoph Lange
%A Emanuele Pontali
%A Enrico Girardi
%A Fabrizio Palmieri
%A Gina Gualano
%A Ivan Solovic
%A Jaime Esteban
%A Jalal Miah
%A Jan Heyckendorf
%A Katerina Manika
%A Lorenzo Guglielmetti
%A M Nieves Altet Gomez
%A Monica Rios Prego
%A Monica Sane Schepisi
%A Pier Francesco Giorgetti
%A Simon Tiberi
%A Zorica Nanovic
%J Archive of "Open Forum Infectious Diseases".
%D 2019
%R 10.1093/ofid/ofy337
%X The growing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) is posing a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control. DM triples the risk of developing TB, modifies the presenting features of pulmonary TB, and worsens TB treatment outcomes. We aimed to analyze the prevalence of DM among TB patients and to describe the characteristics and clinical presentation of TB-DM patients in Europe
%K diabetes mellitus
%K tuberculosis
%K foreign-born
%K Europe
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330516/