Awareness of the Warning Signs, Risk Factors, and Treatment for Tuberculosis among Urban Nigerians

Table 4

Awareness of the risk factors for TB in the subjects.

Reported risk factor	𝑛 (%)
Tobacco smoking
-Active	442 (77.0)
-ETS	344 (59.0)
History of contact	436 (76.0)
Health care job	342 (59.6)
Overcrowding	344 (59.0)
Use of biomass fuel	326 (56.8)
Work-related pollution	322 (56.1)
Low income	312 (54.4)
HIV infection	286 (49.8)
Alcohol intake	244 (42.5)
CKD/CRF	232 (40.4)
Extremes ages	226 (39.4)
Cancer	212 (36.9)
Diabetes mellitus	158 (27.5)