Abstract
Recently published reviews articles and some original electronic based data collected researched articles have shown that diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased the chance of prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in adults especially in the under developed countries where there is already epidemics of the TB disease exist. These findings are still hypothesis and are not supported by logical findings. DM gave birth to TB or vice versa is a debate which needs some better research work to document this fact. This mini critical review article will emphasize on some pharmacological, physiological and clinical aspects of both the diseases to show the connection of both diseases.
Highlights
Published reviews articles and some original electronic based data collected researched articles have shown that diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased the chance of prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in adults especially in the under developed countries where there is already epidemics of the TB disease exist
It is proven fact that Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of developing countries due to unhygienic and poor sanitary conditions. Many expert raised their concern about the twin epidemic of TB and DM [1, 2] in average income countries of asia like India and China which have rapid rate of onset of DM [3] and increasing the number of TB patients in the world .TB is Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent which is habitant of dirty places
About 246 million cases were reported to be suffering from diabetes in 2007 while 3.5 million deaths and 6 million new cases were reported in same report
Summary
Published reviews articles and some original electronic based data collected researched articles have shown that diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased the chance of prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in adults especially in the under developed countries where there is already epidemics of the TB disease exist. It is proven fact that Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of developing countries due to unhygienic and poor sanitary conditions. Many expert raised their concern about the twin epidemic of TB and DM [1, 2] in average income countries of asia like India and China which have rapid rate of onset of DM [3] and increasing the number of TB patients in the world .TB is Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent which is habitant of dirty places.
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