Research Article
Role of Diabetes in the Prognosis and Therapeutic Outcome of Tuberculosis
Table 2
Demographic characteristics of study groups.
| | Cases (DM-TB) | Controls |
| | Variables | | TB | DM | | Gender | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | | Male | 144 (72) | 116 (58.3) | 91 (45.5) | | Female | 56 (28) | 83 (41.74) | 109 (54.5) | | value (Fisher’s exact test) | | | | | Race | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | | Malaysian | 97 (49.2) | 124 (62) | 160 (80) | | Chinese | 73 (37.1) | 55 (27.5) | 26 (13) | | Indian + others | 27 (13.7) | 21 (10.5) | 14 (7) | | value (Pearson ) | | | | | Age | | | | | Mean (SD) | 55.1 (12.4) | 44.4 (19.2) | 52.16 (18) | | value (t-test) | | | NS | | Weight | | | | | Mean (SD) | 56.1 (11.56) | 49.29 (11.3) | 63.3 (14) | | value (t-test) | | | |
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compares the difference between DM-TB and TB only; compares differences between DM-TB and DM only; SD: standard deviation; NS: not significant.
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