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alcohol suppresses the immune system, making infection more likely. TB is also correlated with homelessness, poverty, incarceration, and addiction to other drug
by ruined 5y ago
alcohol suppresses the immune system, making infection more likely. TB is also correlated with homelessness, poverty, incarceration, and addiction to other drugs, which all have obvious relations to heavy drinking, and TB treatments are generally hard on the liver, making prognosis worse and progress from exposure to disease more likely for heavy drinkers.
- giantg2 5y ago"TB is also correlated with homelessness, poverty, incarceration..." This was along the lines of what I was thinking. I just found it odd that the others seemed to be direct and this one is a second order (or higher) impact.