Research Article

High Dimensionality Reduction and Immune Phenotyping of Natural Killer and Invariant Natural Killer Cells in Latent Tuberculosis-Diabetes Comorbidity

Table 1

Demographics of the study population.

ParametersLTB NDMLTB PDMLTB DM

Number of subjects recruited ()202020
Gender (M/F)10/1011/911/9
Median age in years (range)39.6 (24–62)45.9 (25–62)47.1 (25–60)
Glycated hemoglobin level (%)5.48 (>5.0–5.7)6.1 (>5.7–6.3)8.43 (>6.50–11.96)
TST (mm)>5>5>5
QuantiFERON-TB gold assayPositivePositivePositive
BMI24.0 (17.2–30.9)24.7 (16.5–36.1)32.5 (21.5–35.0)