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. 2013 Nov 4;3(Suppl 1):S18–S22. doi: 10.5588/pha.13.0032

TABLE 1.

Screening TB patients for DM at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Bangalore, India, March–September 2012

Indicator n (%)
Patients with TB registered over the study period 510
Patients with a known diagnosis of DM 32 (6.3)
Patients needing to be screened with RBG 478
Patients screened with RBG 478 (100)
Patients with RBG ≥110 mg/dl 110
Patients screened with FBG 109 (99.1)
 Patients with FBG <110 79
 Patients with FBG 110–125 15 (2.9)
 Patients with FBG ≥126 mg/dl (newly diagnosed with DM) 15 (2.9)
Patients with known or newly diagnosed DM 47 (9.2)
Patients with known and newly diagnosed DM referred to DM care 47 (100)
Patients with known or newly diagnosed DM reaching DM care 45 (95.7)

TB = tuberculosis; DM = diabetes mellitus; RBG = random blood glucose; FBG = fasting blood glucose.