Association between tobacco smoking and drug-resistant tuberculosis
Infection and Drug Resistance Jun 21, 2018
Wang MG, et al. - In this systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers quantitatively assessed the association between drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and tobacco smoking. On analyzing 33 studies related to tobacco smoking and DR-TB, they noted that tobacco smoking is an independent risk factor for DR-TB. They also noted the associations in subgroup analyses: for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and for any DR-TB.
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