Research Article
Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients (N=1220).
| | Sociodemographic characteristics | n (%) |
| | Age (years) | | | 14-20 | 505 (41.3) | | 21- 40 | 513 (42) | | >40 | 202 (16.5) |
| | Gender | | | Male | 517 (42.3) | | Female | 703 (57.6) |
| | Origin | | | Rural | 777 (63.6) | | Urban | 443 (36.3) |
| | Occupation | | | Farmer/laborer | 559 (45.8) | | Student | 205 (16.8) | | Unemployed | 186 (15.2) | | Employed | 270 (22.1) |
| | Education | | | Illiterate | 168 (13.7) | | middle/secondary | 724 (59.3) | | Degree | 328 (26.8) |
| | Co-morbidities | | | Yes | 37 (3) | | No | 1183 (96.9) |
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