We thank Drs Yates and Barr for their valuable comments. In our article [1], we were not attempting to assess the extent to which dysglycemia is causally associated with tuberculosis (TB). A number of prospective studies exist, among a body of evidence, supporting probabilistic causation between diabetes mellitus (DM) and TB [2, 3]. Rather, the aim of our study was to identify age-adjusted prevalence and clinical characteristics of DM and intermediate hyperglycemia among those with newly diagnosed TB across 4 TB-endemic settings. In our South African population, the prevalence of DM (10.9% [95% confidence interval, 7%–14.9%]) was the...