Doreen M Olvet, Kaveh Sadigh
Comparing the effectiveness of asynchronous e-modules and didactic lectures to teach electrocardiogram interpretation to first year US medical students
BMC medical education
assess risk developing pulmonary tuberculosis tb accordance prior history covid19 infection since advent covid19 pandemic much discussion possible role might play global efforts combat tb focusing pandemics impact health care systems capabilities manage tb cases mechanisms also proposed covid19 infection may directly affect individuals chance developing tb infection cases reported history covid19 infection preceding diagnosis tb evidencing possible role risk factor disease casecontrol study conducted enrolling patients diagnosed pulmonary tb absence major risk factors previous history tb hiv human immunodeficiency virus infection endstage renal disease organ transplants use immunosuppressive agents developing tb patient age sex matched one healthy control data regarding prior covid19 infection diabetes smoking status well use corticosteroids tocilizumab treatment covid19 infection obtained bivariate analysis conducted variables likely association tb status entered multivariate model bivariate analysis demonstrated significant relationship prior covid19 infection tb 95 confidence interval 11228 odds ratio 5 among variables severity covid19 infection found likely association tb status p 125 multivariate model prior covid19 infection per se found significantly associated tb p 12 45 seems association prior history covid19 future diagnosis tb partially linked severity disease findings current study may serve basis studies determine need efficacy measures followup covid19 patients increased risk developing tb