Biography

Yiping Leng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Changsha Central Hospital Affiliated to University of South China, Deputy Director of the Changsha Tuberculosis Research Institute. Principal Investigator of the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Main research fields: 1) Tuberculosis-cardiovascular disease comorbidity; 2) Vascular Endothelial Injury and Repair.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Predictive analysis of all-cause mortality of initial-treated people with pulmonary TB complicated by hypertension

The prediction model constructed in this study has high predictive ability and satisfactory clinical efficacy, and can provide an effective individualized prediction tool for assessing all-cause mortality risk in patients with initial-treated pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by hypertension.

Source: Conference 2024