This is the first-ever population based study after the interactions between diabetes and tuberculosis or TB came as a wake-up call in 2014. Since then, researchers have been calling upon the governments to start ‘bi-directional screening’ for the simultaneous detection of TB and diabetes, a method that screens TB patients for diabetes and diabetes patients for TB. For example, undiagnosed diabetics, who often have uncontrolled diabetes, had 12 percent prevalence of TB infection - a rate 3-4 times higher than the general population. He, however, suggested further studies in a high tuberculosis burden country like India. This gives a new insight linking diabetes with latent tuberculosis infection.

Source: bd News24 October 12, 2017 07:18 UTC