Smoking, drinking and incident tuberculosis in rural India: population-based case-control study.

BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: A total of 1839 males and 870 females treated in 2000-03 by state TB clinics were inter...

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Main Authors: Gajalakshmi, V, Peto, R
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2009