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Effect of smoking on treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Malaysia; a multicenter study.

Amer Hayat KhanSyed Azhar Syed SulaimanMohamed Azmi HassaliKashif Ullah KhanLong Chiau MingOmer MateenMalik Obaid Ullah
Published in: BMC public health (2020)
Smoking has a strong influence on TB and is a major barrier towards treatment success (OR = 0.76, 95% CI 0.69-0.84, p < 0.001). Therefore, the findings indicate that smoking cessations are an effective way to decrease treatment failure and drug resistance.
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