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SUBMITTER: Lee MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678265 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Meng-Rui MR Lee Ming-Chia MC Chang Chia-Hao CH Liu Chia-Jung CJ Chang Lih-Yu LY Zhang Jun-Fu JF Wang Jann-Yuan JY Lee Chih-Hsin CH
Journal of clinical medicine 20190627 7
While evidence is accumulating that platelets contribute to tissue destruction in tuberculosis (TB) disease, it is still not known whether antiplatelet agents are beneficial to TB patients. We performed this retrospective cohort study and identified incident TB cases in the Taiwan National Tuberculosis Registry from 2008 to 2014. These cases were further classified into antiplatelet users and non-users according to the use of antiplatelet agents prior to the TB diagnosis, and the cohorts were ma ...[more]