Fangchao Liu's research while affiliated with Capital Medical University and other places

Publications (8)

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Purpose The present study aimed to explore the risk factors for tuberculous meningitis (TBM) among patients with tuberculosis (TB). Methods This retrospective study was conducted on patients with TB who were hospitalized in Beijing Chest Hospital between January 2012 and December 2019. Demographic and clinical data of patients with TB were extract...
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Objective The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 is reminiscent of the H7N9 outbreak in 2013, which poses a huge threat to human health. We aim to compare clinical features and survival factors in fatal cases of COVID-19 and H7N9. Methods Data on confirmed COVID-19 and H7N9 fatal cases identified in mainland China were analyzed to compare demographic ch...
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Background Recurrence continues to place significant burden on patients and tuberculosis programmes worldwide, and previous studies have rarely provided analysis in negative recurrence cases. We characterized the epidemiological features of recurrent pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients, estimated its probability associated with different bacterio...
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BACKGROUND A subset of patients who complete standard treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) develop TB recurrence. OBJECTIVE This study characterized the epidemiological features of recurrent PTB patients to estimate recurrence probability associated with different smear test results and examine risk factors associated with recurrence. METHO...
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Background In 2005, China established an internet-based Tuberculosis Information Management System (TBIMS) to monitor changes in tuberculosis (TB). Many scholars have conducted epidemiological research using TBIMS; however, few studies assessing control strategies have been performed based on this platform data. Henan province is a high TB incidenc...
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BACKGROUND Although the studies of surveillance and epidemiological characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) notified to the Chinese CDC Tuberculosis Information Management System (TBIMS) are much more, few assessment studies of control strategies have been performed. OBJECTIVE As a high incidence region of TB, following the nationwide prevention and...

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... It is very consistent with the epidemic characteristics of tuberculosis in other provinces of China. For example, from 2005 to 2018, 70.45% of the total cases of tuberculosis in Henan Province were male, the median age was 48 years old, and the number of farmers and herdsmen reached 81.5% [30]. Men may be more socially active and smoke more than women, which increases the risk of TB [31,32]. ...