Role of Diabetes in the Prognosis and Therapeutic Outcome of Tuberculosis

Table 5

TB treatment outcome.

	Cases	Controls
		TB	DM
Treatment outcome	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Success	168 (84)	177 (88.5)	N/A
Failure	4 (2)	3 (1.5)	N/A
Death	15 (7.5)	2 (1)	4 (2)
Unknown	13 (6.5)	18 (9)	N/A
𝑃 value (Fisher E. T)		𝑃^∗<0.01	𝑃^∗∗<0.01

𝑃^∗ compares differences between DM-TB and TB only; 𝑃^∗∗compares differences between DM-TB and DM only; N/A: not applicable.