| Literature DB >> 27451823 |
Bibha Marak1, Prabhdeep Kaur2, Sudha R Rao3, Sriram Selvaraju4.
Abstract
We did cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of tobacco, alcohol use, hypertension and diabetes among tuberculosis (TB) patients in comparison to the non-TB patients in East Garo Hills District, Meghalaya, India. We surveyed 110 TB patients attending outpatient TB clinic and 110 age/sex matched non-TB subjects from the general outpatient department as comparison group. Prevalence of ever smoking was 74.5% and 55.4%; alcohol consumption 31.0% and 22.3%; hypertension 24.5% and 17.3%; diabetes 7.5%, 4.5% among TB patients and non-TB subjects, respectively. NCD and TB programmes need integration in the primary care for screening, counselling and treatment of NCD comorbidities.Entities:
Keywords: Diabetes; Hypertension; India; Tobacco; Tuberculosis
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27451823 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2015.07.018
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Tuberc ISSN: 0019-5707