Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: The dual burden of tuberculosis (TBC) and diabetes (DM) has attracted much attention in the past decade. Patients with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of developing pulmonary tuberculosis; moreover, DM co-morbidity in pulmonary TB is associated with poor treatment outcomes. Patients admitted to Internal Medicine (IM) Departments are an ideal setting to analyze the prognostic roll of DM on TBC clinical course.Material and method: The Minimum Basi...