Tamil Nadu’s TB patients are 50% diabetic
Posted on: 07/Nov/2014 2:24:36 PM
Diabetes is still hampering the efforts to control TB, even though a nationwide TB program had been carried out. Clinical researches among 1,500 patients infected with TB, in Karnataka, Kerala and TN have showed DM in high prevalence, with TN contributing 25%, Kerala 44% and Karnataka 32%. More than half of the TB patients in TN had pre-diabetes or diabetes. The report also suggested that if immediate steps were not taken, then the consequences could be dire.
Reports released by World Diabetes Foundation and IUATLD stated that these two diseases are still responsible towards causing disability and death.
80% of diabetes is being projected to be found in the next twenty years and Asia being the main target. People would not know that they have caught this disease, until complications have arisen. But TB is airborne bacterial, infectious disease, lying dormant about 1/3rd of global population.
According to an expert, diabetes does increase risk of catching TB. It does something that is still unknown and diminishes immunity in the person, which makes body more susceptible to permitting TB germs, present inside, for multiplying and catching TB.
Almost 10.9 crore people in India, between 29 and 79 age could possibly have diabetes by 2035.
