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cord-103840-2diao7zh	Mungai, B. N.	It's not TB but what could it be? Abnormalities on chest X-rays taken during the Kenya National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey	2020-08-22		.txt	text/plain	5916	356	51	The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of chest X-ray (CXR) as a mass screening tool in TB prevalence surveys and active case finding activities to identify patients eligible for bacteriological investigation. We systematically searched MEDLINE, CINHAL, Global Health and Google scholar databases from 1940-2019 to identify studies that described the prevalence of non-TB CXR findings during TB prevalence surveys or mass screening activities. The main finding from this analysis of X-ray images from the 2016 Kenya TB prevalence survey was that the use of CXR for TB population-based studies identified a large number of patients with abnormalities, including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular abnormalities and chronic respiratory diseases that require clinical attention. Clinically relevant cardiac and chronic pulmonary diseases accounted for 66% of the non-TB abnormalities in our setting.To our knowledge, this is the first study in sub-Saharan Africa to characterise and quantify non-TB CXR findings among participants who underwent mass screening as part of a population-based TB prevalence survey.	./cache/cord-103840-2diao7zh.txt	./txt/cord-103840-2diao7zh.txt