[Webinar] What's the link? Diabetes, latent TB, active TB disease, MDR-TB
Channel: CNS
Date: 2017-10-24

This is the webinar recording in lead up to 2017 World Diabetes Day. One of the major scientific highlights of 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health was the first-ever population-based study to explore link between diabetes and latent TB infection. Link between diabetes and active TB disease, MDR-TB and tobacco use is already established.

PANELISTS:

* Dr Leonardo Martinez, Post-doctoral research fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA (who presented the outcomes of the study "Promising results for an investigation of Glycemic control and prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI): population-based study")

* Dr Anil Kapur, Chairman of Board of Directors, World Diabetes Foundation

* Dr Surya Kant, national President, Indian Chest Society; and Professor and Head of Respiratory Medicine department, King George's Medical University (KGMU)

Moderators:
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* Ashok Ramsarup, award-winning senior journalist and former Senior Producer, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)

* Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS

For more information, check out http://www.citizen-news.org/2017/10/call-to-register-for-24th-october.html

CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
www.citizen-news.org