Association of inactive pulmonary tuberculosis lesions with the risk of active disease development in the elderly: a population-based retrospective study
Overall, individuals with inactive PTB lesions, regardless of lesion type and history of anti-TB treatment, are at increased risk of developing active PTB and deserve interventions for TB control.
Authors
- Yijun He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4710-0194)
- Lei Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5292-805X)
- Yuanzhi Di (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8543-0148)
- Ying Peng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6459-3154)
- Chunfu Fang
- Jiang Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9203-2450)
- Zihan Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5950-0467)
- Ping Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8391-4945)
- Xiaogang Hao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9826-3914)
- Wei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-0313)
- Zhen Wang
- Xiaomeng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9206-7292)
- Yu Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4594-3868)
- Fei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-1944)
- Jianguo Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2563-3384)
- Binbin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9584-0082)
- Bingjun Xu
- Juanjuan Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0385-3263)
- Henan Xin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5008-0412)
- Lingyu Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9716-5481)
- Xuefang Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1633-4895)
- Boxuan Feng
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ERJ Open Research
- Published
- 2025-02-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.01231-2024
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.79
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China