al-Wabel A H, Teklu B, Mahfouz A A, al-Ghamdi A S, el-Amin O B, Khan A S
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
East Afr Med J. 1997 Feb;74(2):62-4.
Symptoms and chest x-ray findings in 28 diabetics and 38 non diabetics with pulmonary tuberculosis were compared. The two groups of patients were age and sex-matched. There was no statistical difference in respiratory or constitutional symptoms between the two groups. Distribution of chest x-ray involvement including cavitary disease was again similar in the two groups of patients. These findings are contrary to previous reports and beliefs that diabetics were less symptomatic and that x-ray findings were more frequent in lower lung fields.
