Table 2.
Comparison of culture-confirmed cases of pulmonary TB by HIV infection status: demographic information
| HIV- positive |
HIV- negative |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic | n | % | n | % | P value |
| N | 873 | 100 | 1141 | 100 | |
| Age, mean, years | 32 | 29 | <0.001 | ||
| Sex | <0.001 | ||||
| Men | 441 | 51 | 714 | 63 | |
| Women | 404 | 46 | 384 | 34 | |
| Marital status | <0.001 | ||||
| Single | 134 | 15 | 449 | 39 | |
| Currently married | 375 | 43 | 444 | 39 | |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 332 | 38 | 193 | 17 | |
| Any higher education (university/technical institute) | 65 | 7 | 129 | 11 | 0.003 |
| Ever smoked | 238 | 27 | 272 | 24 | 0.09 |
| Smoke now | 56 | 6 | 73 | 6 | 0.54 |
| Currently drink alcohol | 180 | 21 | 249 | 22 | 0.505 |
| Heavy alcohol use | 62 | 7 | 85 | 7 | 0.931 |
| Injection drug use | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.754 |
| Sex worker | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.318 |
| History of TB treatment | 8 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0.508 |
| History of isoniazid preventive therapy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.722 |
| History of close TB contact | 103 | 12 | 169 | 15 | 0.217 |
TB = tuberculosis; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.