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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Nov 15;47(10):1277–1283. doi: 10.1086/592572

Table 3.

Adjusted associationa of birth location and documentation status with duration of symptoms ≥8 weeks in patients with PTB

Variable Adjusted
OR		 95% CI P value
Birth location/documentation status
  US-born Reference
  Foreign-born/documented 1.01 0.46–2.24 0.976
  Foreign-born/undocumented 4.14 1.68–10.22 0.002
Health insuredb 1.51 0.73–3.10 0.240
Unemployed 2.24 1.12–4.46 0.023
HIV statusc
  HIV negative Reference
  HIV positive 0.74 0.31–1.81 0.511
  HIV unknown 0.81 0.41–1.57 0.525
a

Logistic regression model with 192 observations

b

Information on health insurance available on 192/194 (99%) subjects

c

HIV-1/2 serology results available for 118 (61%) subjects