• Mohsen Gadallah, Wagdy Amin, Magdy Fawzy, Alaa Mokhtar, and Amira Mohsen.
• Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine. Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566 Egypt.
• Afr Health Sci. 2018 Dec 1; 18 (4): 884-890.

BackgroundThe prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is increasing rapidly in Egypt and considered one of the major health problems in the Eastern Mediterranean region.ObjectivesTo measure the prevalence of diabetes and detect the undiagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus among patient with tuberculosis.MethodsStudy Design: Nationwide population-based study. To diagnose DM among TB patients, we used a fasting blood sugar level of ≥ 126 mg/dl and a post-prandial blood glucose test result of ≥ 200 mg/dl.ResultsScreening for DM among 1435 TB patients' with no history of DM detected 30 new cases of DM, with a case detection rate of 2.09%. The highest screening yields were among TB patients aged ≥ 40 years, females and those with pulmonary TB. The number needed to screen (NNS) TB patients for detecting one new case of DM was 48 while the lowest values were for older age (NNS=27) and females (NNS=29).ConclusionOlder age and being females and those with pulmonary type of TB were more prone to the double burden of TB and DM. Identifying cases with double burden of diseases will improve the proper management of both diseases and prevent complications.

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