Diabetes makes people more vulnerable to TB

Diabetes is a mother of all diseases. This fact is again well established after a study which confirmed that diabetes sufferes are more prone to develope Tuberculosis. Diabetes makes a person about three times as likely to develop tuberculosis, and it may be to blame for more than 10 percent of TB cases in India and China, this is what researchers.

There is evidence that diabetes predisposes people to TB infection and impairs their ability to respond to infection, Murray said. Tuberculosis is spread from one person to another when someone with active TB disease coughs or sneezes.

The findings indicate global TB control efforts might benefit from giving extra attention to diabetics when dealing with people with latent TB infections, the researchers said.