Role of risk factors and socio-economic status in pulmonary tuberculosis: A search for the root cause in patients in a tertiary care hospital, South India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-78

  Gupta, Soham ^a,b   Shenoy, Vishnu Prasad ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjay ^a   Bairy, Indira ^a   Muralidharan, Sethumadhavan ^b  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; HIV; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Socio economic impact

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ALCOHOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALNUTRITION; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALCOHOLISM; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BLUE COLLAR WORKER; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEOPLASM; PENSIONER; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WHITE COLLAR WORKER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

INDIA;

EID: 78650207954     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02676.x     Document Type: Article

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