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 [China] Intervention is needed for smoking cessation among TB patients

Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 6 months ago

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Photo by andronicusmaxThe proportion of cigarette smoking was 54.6% in TB cases in China, which was significantly higher than that in controls (45.1%). The researchers concluded that cigarette smoking is associated with TB in the Chinese and the interventions of smoking cessation are recommended to be included in the current TB control practice Read source article...

Keywords: cessation drug resistance extensively drug-resistant M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant smoking TB tobacco tuberculosis XDR-TB

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