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ArticlePulmonary medicine2013

Risk factors for tuberculosis.

Padmanesan Narasimhan, James Wood, Chandini Raina Macintyre, Dilip Mathai

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Article in Pulmonary medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03302299 (URBAN ARCH), which is not on this map. Cited by 304 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT03302299 phase4completednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

URBAN ARCH (3/5) Uganda Cohort TB Preventive Therapy for HIV-infected Alcohol Users in Uganda: an Evaluation of Safety Tolerability and Adherence

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoRan2017 to 2021Enrolled302ConditionsTuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Alcohol AbuseArmsIsoniazid 300 Mg ORAL TABLET, Pyridoxine 25 Mg Oral Tablet
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Padmanesan NarasimhanSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
James Wood
Chandini Raina Macintyre
Dilip Mathai

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The risk of progression from exposure to the tuberculosis bacilli to the development of active disease is a two-stage process governed by both exogenous and endogenous risk factors. Exogenous factors play a key role in accentuating the progression from exposure to infection among which the bacillary load in the sputum and the proximity of an individual to an infectious TB case are key factors. Similarly endogenous factors lead in progression from infection to active TB disease. Along with well-established risk factors (such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malnutrition, and young age), emerging variables such as diabetes, indoor air pollution, alcohol, use of immunosuppressive drugs, and tobacco smoke play a significant role at both the individual and population level. Socioeconomic and behavioral factors are also shown to increase the susceptibility to infection. Specific groups such as health care workers and indigenous population are also at an increased risk of TB infection and disease. This paper summarizes these factors along with health system issues such as the effects of delay in diagnosis of TB in the transmission of the bacilli.

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PMCPMC3583136

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