{"id":3068,"date":"2018-03-30T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:07:33","slug":"7-reasons-tb-is-a-real-risk-for-you-and-youre-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/7-reasons-tb-is-a-real-risk-for-you-and-youre-family\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Reasons &#8211; TB Is a Real Risk for You And you\u2019re Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3071 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TB.jpg\" alt=\"TB\" width=\"532\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did you know that India has the highest number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/test-for-tuberculosis\">TB patients<\/a> globally,with <strong>28 lakh<\/strong> <strong>diagnosed <\/strong>in 2016, and an Indian succumbing to TB every five minutes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are some lesser-known facts about TB that you should be aware of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 1:<\/strong> Almost <strong>40% of India\u2019s population has Latent TB (LTB)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ltb.png\" alt=\"LTB patients \" width=\"712\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 2<\/strong>: It\u2019s air-borne \u2013 <strong>every cough of a TB patient releases millions of infectious droplets<\/strong>. Thus, when it spreads, TB spares no one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 3: <\/strong>Besides the lungs, TB can affect any organ in the body \u2013 bones, brain, intestines, lymph nodes, or skin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Fact 4<\/strong>: There are <strong>1.3 lakh <\/strong>multidrug resistant TB (<strong>MDR-TB<\/strong>) cases in India \u2013 where patients don\u2019t respond to first-line drugs- for which treatment is very expensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3070 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cost_of_treatment.png\" alt=\"Cost of treatment\" width=\"835\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 5: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/pathology-test\/mycobacterium-tuberculosis-pcr-mycosure-tb-pcr\">Tuberculosis<\/a> is a root cause of infection that results in infertility among 25-30% of women in India<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 6:<\/strong> Almost <strong>10% of total TB cases<\/strong> in India are among<strong> children<\/strong>, but only <strong>6%<\/strong> are <strong>reported<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact 7:<\/strong> HIV\u00a0and Diabetes increase the risk of contracting Tuberculosis (TB)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HIV weakens the immune system, increasing susceptibility to TB11. In 2016, there were 87,000 new HIV-TB cases<sup>2<\/sup> and India ranked second worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 45% cases, TB was diagnosed after the onset of diabetes; 25% vice-versa, and 20% together.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Good News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While these numbers sound alarming, there is a lot you can do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/quantiferon-tb-gold-test\/\">lower the risk of TB<\/a> for you and your loved ones. It is advisable to get regular check-ups as early diagnosis can help cure TB.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consult your doctor to know more about early diagnosis of TB.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Call our national Customer Care at 011 &#8211; 39885050 for TB testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that India has the highest number of TB patients globally,with 28 lakh diagnosed in 2016, and an Indian succumbing to TB every five minutes? Here are some lesser-known facts about TB that you should be aware of: Fact 1: Almost 40% of India\u2019s population has Latent TB (LTB) Fact 2: It\u2019s air-borne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[984,885,814,994],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/9658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}