Active pulmonary tuberculosis and coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The proportion of COVID-19 patients having active pulmonary tuberculosis, and its impact on COVID-19 related patient outcomes, is not clear. We conducted this systematic review to evaluate the proportion of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis among COVID-19 patients, and to assess if comorbid pulmonary tuberculosis worsens clinical outcomes in these patients.

Methods

We queried the PubMed and Embase databases for studies providing data on (a) proportion of COVID-19 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis or (b) severe disease, hospitalization, or mortality among COVID-19 patients with and without active pulmonary tuberculosis. We calculated the proportion of tuberculosis patients, and the relative risk (RR) for each reported outcome of interest. We used

SUBMITTER: Aggarwal AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8530351 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature