Scientists discover that suffering diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis

Suffering diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis, according to an international study that has occurred in Barcelona at the inauguration of the 45th World Pulmonary Health Congress, in which more than 3,000 doctors, researchers and experts participate.

The study, prepared by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (La Unión) and the World Diabetes Foundation, provides for an increase in diabetics in the world, which will go from 382 million people to 592 million in 2035.

Interaction between the two diseases If it is not acts now, there will be an epidemic of diabetes that will affect millions of people the director of research of the Union, Paula Fujiwara, explained at a press conference that when diabetes is suffered there is a high risk of hostingTuberculosis and vice versa, an interrelation that has revealed the study and that the expert has wielded to ask governments to be involved in avoiding this interaction between the two diseases.

The member of the Board of Directors of the World Diabetes Foundation, Anil Kapur, has expressed that in the places where these diseases have been studied, from India to China, from Eastern Africa to the United States, they are being seen"Significantly higher diabetes rates among patients with tuberculosis than what appears in the general population."Kapur has affirmed that, if it does not act now, there will be "an epidemic of diabetes that will affect millions of people in the world and the resources of public health systems."

For his part, the main advisor of the Union, Anthony Harries, stressed that something similar was seen with tuberculosis and HIV (AIDS) with respect to what is happening now with tuberculosis and diabetes, and has sued expertsof health to continue with medical and scientific research to deal with both diseases.To avoid more contagios and the explosion of tuberculosis and diabetes in the world, Fujiwara has expressed that "people who have diabetes should be detected and control that they cannot develop tuberculosis."