Value of the Ratio of Monocytes to Lymphocytes for Monitoring Tuberculosis Therapy

Table 1

MLR of patients before treatment and on discharge in different subgroups.

	N	Before treatment	On discharge
Gender
Male	90	0.50 (0.32–0.69)	0.35 (0.26–0.54)	<0.001
Female	61	0.37 (0.24–0.62)	0.30 (0.20–0.39)	<0.001
Age				<0.001
<30 y	75	0.47 (0.28–0.69)	0.32 (0.26–0.46)	<0.001
30–55 y	46	0.38 (0.25–0.61)	0.29 (0.21–0.41)	<0.001
>55 y	30	0.47 (0.32–0.77)	0.35 (0.23–0.59)	<0.001
Location				<0.001
Pulmonary TB	120	0.44 (0.26–0.45)	0.32 (0.25–0.45)	<0.001
Extrapulmonary TB	31	0.49 (0.27–0.77)	0.37 (0.24–0.48)	0.001