Pizzol Damiano, Di Gennaro Francesco, Chhaganlal Kajal D, Fabrizio Claudia, Monno Laura, Putoto Giovanni, Saracino Annalisa
Research Section, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Beira - Mozambique.
Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Afr Health Sci. 2017 Sep;17(3):773-779. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v17i3.20.
Data regarding the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) in Africa are scarce. DM screening among TB patients in Mozambique was carried out.
The study was implemented from January to August 2016 in three Urban Health Centers in Beira, Mozambique and recruited adult (>18 years) patients newly diagnosed with pulmonary TB.
Three hundred and one patients were enrolled (67.4%, males mean age 31.7(SD 11 years). Diabetes was diagnosed in only 3 patients (1%) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in an additional 6 subjects (2%).
A lower than expected prevalence of DM was observed, which could be explained by the lack of traditional risk factors for DM (overweight, age over 45 years, hypertension and smoking) in Mozambique.
非洲地区关于糖尿病(DM)与结核病(TB)之间关联的数据稀缺。在莫桑比克对结核病患者进行了糖尿病筛查。
该研究于2016年1月至8月在莫桑比克贝拉市的三个城市卫生中心开展,招募新诊断为肺结核的成年(>18岁)患者。
共纳入301名患者(67.4%为男性,平均年龄31.7岁(标准差11岁))。仅3名患者(1%)被诊断为糖尿病,另外6名受试者(2%)存在糖耐量受损(IGT)。
观察到糖尿病患病率低于预期,这可能是由于莫桑比克缺乏糖尿病的传统危险因素(超重、年龄超过45岁、高血压和吸烟)所致。