‘amputation appropriate’

Diabetes and Tuberculosis

Monday, July 26th, 2010

diabetesUntreated diabetes or a bad treatment significantly increases the risk of stroke, blindness, kidney failure or diabetic foot amputation appropriate. However, there is another disease that is rarely derived from comments on the relationship with diabetes, we refer to tuberculosis.

According to a recent study in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas diabetic patients treated for TB take longer to get rid of the bacteria that cause and have a much greater risk that it becomes resistant to therapy, ” warned Dr. Blanca Restrepo (professor of epidemiology).

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