Background:As a result of epidemiological transition,the health systems of low-and middle-income countries are increasingly faced with a dual disease burden of infectious diseases and emerging non-communicable *** is ...
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Background:As a result of epidemiological transition,the health systems of low-and middle-income countries are increasingly faced with a dual disease burden of infectious diseases and emerging non-communicable *** is known about the mutual influence of these two disease *** aim of this study was to investigate the cooccurrence of helminth infections and diabetes mellitus in adults in Lao People’s Democratic Republic(Lao PDR).Methods:We conducted a cross-sectional study among 1600 randomly selected adults aged 35 and older from four different socio-economical and ecological *** on socio-demographics,risk factors and health conditions was obtained from personal *** assessments including anthropometry(height,weight,waist and hip circumference)and blood pressure measurements were also *** was classified based on selfreported diagnoses and a point-of-care glycated haemoglobin(HbA1c)test from finger prick blood *** samples for helminth diagnosis were examined with formalin-ether concentration technique for intestinal parasitic *** independent associations of helminth infections with diabetic status and HbA1c were assessed using multiple regression ***:The prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes was 37.3%and 22.8%,***-six percent of diabetic cases were undiagnosed and 85%of diagnosed diabetic cases had poor glycemic *** from rural areas and from southern parts of the country had higher infection rates,with Opisthorchis viverrini,being the most common helminth infection(30.5%).We found a positive association between Taenia *** and HbA1c(β=0.117;95%CI:0.042-0.200)and diabetes mellitus risk(OR=2.98;95%CI:1.10-8.05).No other helminth species was associated with glycated ***:Hyperglycaemia and diabetic rates in Lao PDR are alarmingly high,but consistent with other high rates in the *** the high rates of unde
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