A nationwide study found that TB history did not elevate long-term cancer risk among individuals living with HIV.

Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, resulting in more than 1·25 million deaths in 2023 alone.1 During ...

Table 2 describes the prevalence and incidence among the cohort of contacts; seven cases were found with TB disease at the first evaluation and three more during the follow-up (Figure 1). Infection ...

In 2023, tuberculosis claimed approximately 1·3 million lives,1 providing a stark reminder of the persistent inequities and ...

Other Risk Factors Additional risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer include: Age: Most cases of pancreatic cancer develop between the ages of 60 and 80 years. Gender: Pancreatic cancer is more ...

The CUFF-TB project is widely seen as a scalable, high-impact model that could transform community health responses across Zimbabwe and in other countries facing similar health burdens.

Young children have a high risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) in the absence of preventive treatment. Infection prevalence and risk ...

Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue posing serious harm to the human health. Many studies have suggested that smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are risk factors ...

For the purposes of comparison, 251 consecutively patients diagnosed with pulmonary or extrapulmonary TB with negative HBsAg and HCV antibody from January 2013 to February 2014 were enrolled and ...

Introduction Improved understanding of risk factors for developing active tuberculosis (TB) will better inform decisions about diagnostic testing and treatment for latent TB infection (LTBI) in ...

We found that having undernutrition doubled the risk of getting sick due to tuberculosis compared to those who had not. What are the limitations of the evidence? Many of the studies had some ...

This study set out to describe the prevalence of a high blood pressure (HBP) and identify factors associated with high BP among persons with presumed and diagnosed TB patients in a high TB burden ...