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. 2019 Oct 10;8:872. Originally published 2019 Jun 17. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.19279.2

Table 2. Diabetes mellitus screening among TB patients in Kampala, Uganda, from 2016–2017 (10 centres combined).

Registered TB patients screened for and diagnosed with DM Number
Number of registered TB patients 4,590
Number with known DM 26
Number to be screened with RBG 4,564
Number (%) screened with RBG 4,016 (88.0%)
Number with RBG ≥ 6.1 mmol/l and to be screened with FBG 1,312
Number (%) screened with FBG 1,093 (83.3%)
Number with FBG ≥ 7.0 mmol /l 66
Number (%) of newly diagnosed with DM * 66 (71.7%)
Number (%) with known and newly diagnosed DM 92 (2.3%)

* Percentage of newly diagnosed DM among total number of DM

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