Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of TB patients, National Tuberculosis Center, Sana’a-Yemen 2021.
| n | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |||
| Gender | Male | 174 | 53% |
| Female | 157 | 47% | |
| Age (year) | <40 | 192 | 58% |
| 40–<60 | 84 | 25% | |
| ≥60 | 55 | 17% | |
| Place of residence | Rural | 173 | 52% |
| Urban | 158 | 48% | |
| Education | Illiterate | 147 | 44% |
| Primary | 84 | 25% | |
| Secondary | 69 | 21% | |
| University | 31 | 10% | |
| Occupation | Not work | 285 | 86% |
| Work | 46 | 14% | |
| Behaviors | |||
| Smoking | No | 256 | 77% |
| Yes | 75 | 23% | |
| Chewing khat | No | 130 | 39% |
| Yes | 201 | 61% | |
| Clinical characteristics | |||
| Site of TB | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 143 | 43% |
| Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis | 188 | 57% | |
| Treatment status | New | 247 | 74% |
| Follow up | 62 | 19% | |
| Relapse | 13 | 4% | |
| After default | 9 | 3% | |
| Chronic diseases | Heart diseases | 47 | 14% |
| Kidney diseases | 30 | 9% | |
| Liver diseases | 4 | 1% | |
| Cancer | 3 | 1% | |
| Family history of diabetes | No | 233 | 70% |
| Yes | 98 | 30% | |
| BMI | Normal weight (18–22.9 kg/m2) | 139 | 42% |
| Obesity (>25 kg/m2) | 43 | 13% | |
| Overweight (23–24.9 kg/m2) | 33 | 10% | |
| Underweight (<18 kg/m2) | 116 | 35% | |