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Título:
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Reply to Yates and Barr
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Autores:
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Ugarte-Gil, C. ;
Pearson, F. ;
Moore, D. ;
Critchley, J. ;
van Crevel, R.
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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Oxford University Press, 2019-08-08T15:23:45Z
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
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Resumen:
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We thank Drs Yates and Barr for their valuable comments. In our article [1], we were not attempting to assess the extent to which dysglycemia is causally associated with tuberculosis (TB). A number of prospective studies exist, among a body of evidence, supporting probabilistic causation between diabetes mellitus (DM) and TB [2, 3]. Rather, the aim of our study was to identify age-adjusted prevalence and clinical characteristics of DM and intermediate hyperglycemia among those with newly diagnosed TB across 4 TB-endemic settings. In our South African population, the prevalence of DM (10.9% [95% confidence interval, 7%–14.9%]) was the...
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En línea:
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http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz434
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