title: Symptomatology and chest roentgenographic changes of pulmonary tuberculosis among diabetics.
abstract: Symptoms and chest x-ray findings in 28 diabetics and 38 non diabetics with pulmonary tuberculosis were compared. The two groups of patients were age and sex-matched. There was no statistical difference in respiratory or constitutional symptoms between the two groups. Distribution of chest x-ray involvement including cavitary disease was again similar in the two groups of patients. These findings are contrary to previous reports and beliefs that diabetics were less symptomatic and that x-ray findings were more frequent in lower lung fields.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: al-Wabel
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Teklu
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Mahfouz
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: al-Ghamdi
authors.forename: O B
authors.initials: OB
authors.lastname: el-Amin
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology