Prevalence and associated factors of diabetes mellitus among patients with tuberculosis in South Korea from 2011 to 2018: a nationwide cohort study.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) among patients with tuberculosis (TB) using a nationwide cohort in South Korea.

Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Setting: This study used the Korean Tuberculosis and Post-Tuberculosis cohort, which was constructed by linking the Korean National Tuberculosis Surveillance, National Health Information Database (NHID) and Statistics Korea data for the causes of death.

Visfatin contributes to the differentiation of monocytes into macrophages through the differential regulation of inflammatory cytokines in THP-1 cells.

Visfatin is a novel multifunctional adipocytokine with inflammatory properties. Although a link between visfatin and atherosclerosis has recently been suggested, its actions in the development of atherosclerosis remain unknown. Therefore, we investigated a potential role and underlying mechanism(s) of visfatin in monocytes/macrophages differentiation, a critical early step in atherogenesis, using phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA)-stimulated THP-1 cell models.