Prevalence and associated factors of diabetes mellitus among patients with tuberculosis in South Korea from 2011 to 2018: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to identify the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) among patients with tuberculosis (TB) using a nationwide cohort in South Korea.

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Setting

This study used the Korean Tuberculosis and Post-Tuberculosis cohort, which was constructed by linking the Korean National Tuberculosis Surveillance, National Health Information Database (NHID) and Statistics Korea data for the causes of death.

Participants

During the study period, all notified patients with TB with at least one claim in the NHID were included. Exclusion criteria were age less than 20 years, drug resistance, initiation of TB treatment before the study period and missing values in covariates.

Outcome measures

DM was defined as having at

SUBMITTER: Jeong D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10008237 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature