Diabetics at higher risk of tuberculosis infection

The study, done in medically-underserved communities on both sides of the border of Mexico and the United States of America (USA), found that people with diabetes face three to five times the risk of contracting TB than non-diabetics living in the same settings.

Although the link between diabetes (primarily type 1) and TB has been known since the beginning of the 20th century, it had largely been forgotten by the 1950s as diabetes could be controlled by insulin and drugs to treat TB became available.