Differences between Risk Factors Associated with Tuberculosis Treatment Abandonment and Mortality

Table 1

Characteristics of patients with tuberculosis.

Characteristics	Study population
		(%)
Year of diagnosis
2002	200	(15.9)
2003	195	(15.5)
2004	198	(15.8)
2005	173	(13.8)
2006	179	(14.3)
2007	142	(11.3)
2008	169	(13.5)
Age
<40 years	673	(54.4)
>40 years	565	(45.6)
Gender
Female	389	(30.9)
Male	868	(69.1)
HIV coinfection
No	1140	(90.7)
Yes	117	(9.3)
Alcoholic
No	1122	(89.3)
Yes	135	(10.7)
Literacy
Yes	943	(75.0)
No	314	(25.0)
Treatment in the same city of residence
Yes	1080	(85.9)
No	177	(14.1)
Area
Countryside	150	(11.9)
Urban area	1107	(88.1)
Institutionalized patients
No	1204	(95.8)
Yes	53	(4.2)
Cigarette smoking
No	1165	(92.7)
Yes	92	(7.3)
Comorbidity
No	1128	(89.7)
Yes	129	(10.3)
Diabetes	79	(6.3)
Lung mycoses	10	(0.8)
Neoplasia	9	(0.7)
COPD	9	(0.7)
Pneumoconiosis	5	(0.4)
Extrapulmonary TB
No	1020	(81.1)
Yes	237	(18.9)
Pleural	103	(8.2)
Lymph node	62	(4.9)
Genitourinary	8	(0.6)
Bones	12	(1.0)
Ocular	9	(0.7)
Miliary	16	(1.3)
Meningitis	6	(0.5)
Cutaneous	3	(0.2)
Laryngeal	4	(0.3)
Others	14	(1.1)
Chest X-ray examination
Suspicious	1093	(87.0)
Normal	121	(9.6)
Other/not done	43	(3.4)
Tuberculin testing
Negative	176	(14)
Weakly positive	29	(2.3)
Strongly positive	246	(19.6)
Not done	806	(64.1)
Case definition
New case	1071	(85.2)
Treatment after relapse	69	(5.5)
Treatment after abandonment	106	(8.4)
Transferred-in cost	11	(0.9)

Missing data in 19 patients.