Cured TB patients run risk of lung disease: Study

Post Date: 
2019-06-03
Source: 
The Telegraph (India)


.  . . “The high proportion of COPD in such young patients is alarming,” said Akshay Gupte, a doctor turned epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Clinical Global Health Education in the US and the study’s lead author.



He told The Telegraph: “The current guidelines for following up on patients cured of TB may need to change.” . . .