Jack Stanley
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Jack Stanley
@jack-stan.bsky.social
NHS SpR in Infection |
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow |
NHS Clinical AI Fellow |
Published yesterday:

🩺 Data from 12 studies on ~16,000 people diagnosed w/ TB in Zimbabwe

📈 Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased by half a year with each passing calendar year 2000-2024

🥼 We need to think of older adults more when considering surveillance, diagnosis and management of TB
Temporal changes in age at diagnosis with tuberculosis in high-HIV prevalence settings: a pooled multi-cohort analysis from Zimbabwe
Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased between 2000 and 2024. TB programmes must adapt case-finding, clinical services and management for older adults considering multimorbidity, polypharmacy and f...
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September 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM