Occurrence of adverse drug reactions in multidrug drug resistant tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus

Methodology: The present study was conducted to describe the side effects of anti-tubercular therapy in patients of TB with and without diabetes mellitus. Equal number of diabetic and non-diabetic (n=75 each) multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB patients who received at least 3 months of anti-TB treatment at our centre were included in the study. All patients in the diabetic group were diagnosed using Genexpert and Mycobacteria growth indicator tube. Adverse drug reactions were determined based on the clinical presentation.