Published yesterday:
🩺 Data from 12 studies on ~16,000 people diagnosed w/ TB in Zimbabwe
📈 Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased by half a year with each passing calendar year 2000-2024
🥼 We need to think of older adults more when considering surveillance, diagnosis and management of TB
thelancet.com
Temporal changes in age at diagnosis with tuberculosis in high-HIV prevalence settings: a pooled multi-cohort analysis from Zimbabwe
Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased between 2000 and 2024. TB programmes must
adapt case-finding, clinical services and management for older adults considering
multimorbidity, polypharmacy and f...