Table 2.
CID by demographic and clinical status at follow-up among multibacillary leprosy patients by treatment compliance status, Agra district (Uttar Pradesh) India
| Charaecterstics | Completed treatment |
Defaulters |
χ2 with p value |
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| Cases | CID rate | Cases | CID rate | Completed treatment | Defaulters | |
| Age, years | ||||||
| ≤14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| 15–24 | 15 | 6.7 | 3 | 33.3 | ||
| 25–34 | 30 | 9.7 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 35–54 | 64 | 15.6 | 25 | 12.0 | ||
| >54 | 41 | 7.3 | 20 | 20.0 | ||
| Total | 162 | 10.5 | 59 | 13.6 | ||
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 101 | 12.9 | 28 | 14.3 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Female | 61 | 6.6 | 31 | 12.9 | ||
| Delay in treatment, months | ||||||
| ≤12 | 44 | 6.8 | 14 | 7.1 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| 13–36 | 63 | 11.1 | 26 | 11.5 | ||
| >36 | 55 | 12.7 | 19 | 21.1 | ||
| Patches | ||||||
| 0 | 5 | 60.0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0, 0.002 | >0.05 |
| 1–5 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 6–10 | 62 | 6.5 | 13 | 0 | ||
| >10 | 90 | 11.1 | 42 | 19.0 | ||
| Nerves | ||||||
| 0–2 | 66 | 4.8 | 28 | 7.1 | >0.05 | 7.7, 0.021 |
| 3–5 | 60 | 11.7 | 17 | 5.9 | ||
| >5 | 39 | 17.9 | 14 | 35.7 | ||
| Clinical status | ||||||
| BT/BTR | 94 | 4.3 | 24 | 8.3 | 19.6, <0.001 | >0.05 |
| BB/BBR | 38 | 13.2 | 23 | 21.7 | ||
| BL/LL | 25 | 20.0 | 12 | 8.3 | ||
| N | 5 | 60.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Smear | ||||||
| Positive | 101 | 8.9 | 28 | 17.9 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Negative | 19 | 10.5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Not done | 42 | 14.3 | 27 | 11.1 | ||
BB, borderline borderline; BL, borderline lepromatous; BT, borderline tuberculoid; CID, crude incidence of disability; LL, lepromatous; R, reaction at diagnosis.