Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Diabetes, Low Body Mass Index and the Risk of Self-Reported Symptoms of Active Tuberculosis: Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analyses of 72,684 Individuals in 14 High Tuberculosis Burden Countries

Jayadeep Patra; Prabhat Jha; Jürgen Rehm; Wilson Suraweera

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096433

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Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Diabetes, Low Body Mass Index and the Risk of Self-Reported Symptoms of Active Tuberculosis: Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analyses of 72,684 Individuals in 14 High Tuberculosis Burden Countries

Jayadeep Patra ,

* E-mail: patraj@smh.ca

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Prabhat Jha,

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Jürgen Rehm,

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
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Wilson Suraweera

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Diabetes, Low Body Mass Index and the Risk of Self-Reported Symptoms of Active Tuberculosis: Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analyses of 72,684 Individuals in 14 High Tuberculosis Burden Countries

Jayadeep Patra,
Prabhat Jha,
Jürgen Rehm,
Wilson Suraweera

Published: May 2, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096433

About the Authors

Jayadeep Patra

* E-mail: patraj@smh.ca

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Prabhat Jha

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jürgen Rehm

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

Wilson Suraweera

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP PJ. Performed the experiments: JP PJ WS. Analyzed the data: JP WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP PJ. Wrote the paper: JP PJ JR.

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