Diabetes Increases Risk Of Tuberculosis, Studies Show
July 15, 2008
Digg This! | Send to Newsvine | Add to del.icio.usJuly 15, 2008 (Science Daily) - People with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), according to an analysis published in PLoS Medicine.
Searching for research over the past four decades containing data on the relationship between diabetes and TB, Christie Jeon and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health identified 13 studies involving more than 1.7 million participants, including 17,698 cases of TB.
Combining the data from cohort studies in particular, the researchers calculated that diabetes increases the risk of active TB by about a factor of three.
A three-fold increased risk suggests that diabetes may already be responsible for more than 10% of TB cases in India and China. If these findings are replicated in other countries, global TB control might benefit from special attention to people with diabetes when identifying and treating latent TB.
Increased efforts to diagnose and treat diabetes might also decrease the global burden of TB, which kills about 1.6 million people each year.
Posted by dlife at July 15, 2008 03:03 PM
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Our recent work in Iran, was complete healing of diabetic foot ulcers in different grades. We proposed that it may be reversible by an action that we believed as the major risk factor for ulceration. As mentioned in our hypothesis(Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A novel Treatment Strategy), We predicted possiblity of transforming and reversing the defects into a physiologic state.Our results showed that it had been probably a great fact. One route for my hypothesis was more common defects in cellulaar and molecular aspects seen in both diabetes and TB; so there is hope to prevent and cure both diabetes mellitus and TB by the use of this method and also to fight both occurence of foot ulceration and TB in diabetics. We prepared a safe remedy for this avilable here in Iran.
Posted by: khodaberdi kalavi at August 28, 2008 01:48 PM
As has mentioned above, there are evidences on literature and clinical practice denoting this relationship. Because of this, we considered that people with diabetes might have been immunocompromised as they develpe signs as candida and other fungal infections in their body(interdigitative) taht a common sighn of an immune defficency specially with phagocytic deffects. for this we improved a remedy acts as an immunosupport in cellilar immunity just by supporting it. we then cured by this method cases with non healing diabetes ulcers that were extremely resistant to current therapy protocols. Our volunteers were wha had diabetic foot ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers+ hemodialysis and aggressive lytic wounds with no diabetes involvements. We cured initial such wounds in 3-5 days, scorches as pre foot uleration in hemodialysis patients with an without diabetes within 5-10 days. Our results were significant. It is applicable as treatment remedy and prevention purposes. We are ready to collaborate and communicate in this regard. It is cheap, safe and easily applicable. It would be considered globally in next future. I,ve published some levels of my hypothesis entitled" diabetic foot ulcers: A novel treatment strategy''. I then hopeful that we never see people stressful due to such problems that in turn result in immunosuppression.
Posted by: Khodaberdi Kalavilavi at August 4, 2008 01:49 AM
I would like to know why diabetics are at more of a risk of getting TB? Is it because of healing slowing or what? i would really like to know this. I have enough to worry about than this to. Thank You Karen Wilson
Posted by: karen wilson karen wilson at July 29, 2008 11:49 AM