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Monday, August 3, 2009

Smoking, drinking and incident tuberculosis in rural India: population-based case–control study
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(4):1018-105

To investigate the extent to which smoking and/or drinking can increase the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), a population-based case–control study was conducted in rural south India.

This study of reliably confirmed disease (by the criteria of state TB clinics) demonstrates an increased incidence of pulmonary TB among those who smoke and among those who drink. The effects of smoking after adjustment for drinking were more definite than those of drinking after adjustment for smoking.


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