Table 1.
Association between relapse of tuberculosis and biologic and lifestyle characteristics of individuals, OR—crude and adjusted by the year of entry in the cohort, Recife 2006
| Biological factors and lifestyle | Relapse |
Control |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | Crude OR (CI) | P | OR (CI) Adjusted | P | |
| Age (years) | 0.154 | 0.401 | ||||||
| 13–29 | 10 | 4.13 | 232 | 95.87 | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| 30–49 | 22 | 6.96 | 294 | 93.04 | 1.73 (0.81–3.74) | 0.159 | 1.72 (0.80–3.72) | 0.164 |
| ≥50 | 5 | 3.27 | 148 | 96.73 | 0.78 (0.26–2.34) | 0.662 | 0.79 (0.26–2.35) | 0.668 |
| Total | 37 | – | 674 | – | ||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Female | 14 | 5.56 | 238 | 94.44 | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| Male | 23 | 5.01 | 436 | 94.99 | 0.89 (0.45–1.77) | 0.755 | 0.88 (0.44–1.76) | 0.732 |
| Total | 37 | – | 674 | – | ||||
| Alcohol consumption | ||||||||
| None or light drinker | 32 | 5.32 | 569 | 94.68 | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| Heavy drinker | 3 | 4.05 | 71 | 95.95 | 0.75 (0.22–2.52) | 0.643 | 0.76 (0.22–2.54) | 0.653 |
| Total | 35 | – | 640 | – | ||||
| Cigarette smoking | ||||||||
| Never smoking or given up smoking | 23 | 4.16 | 530 | 95.84 | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| Ever smoking | 14 | 9.21 | 138 | 90.79 | 2.33 (1.17–4.66) | 0.016 | 2.34 (1.17–4.68) | 0.016 |
| Total | 37 | – | 668 | – | ||||