Table 4. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the non-active TB individuals.
| Individuals without active TB (n = 980) | ||||||||
| Low risk of TB exposure | High risk of TB exposure | |||||||
| (n = 559) | (n = 421) | |||||||
| Blood donors | Healthy Community Adults | Non -TB Patients (a) | Health Care Workers | Healthy Family Contacts | Cured TB | |||
| (n = 459) | (n = 100) | (n = 73) | (n = 123) | (n = 135) | (n = 90) | |||
| Percentage | ||||||||
| Pulmonary disease | NA | NA | 58.9 | NA | NA | 100.0 | ||
| Median Age (IQR) | NA | 44.0 | 40.0 | 30.0 | 32.0 | 34.0 | ||
| Ratio M/F | NA | 1.7 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.1 | ||
| Male prevalence | NA | 63.0 | 71.2 | 49.6 | 51.1 | 75.6 | ||
| Diabetes | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.9 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Poor Nutrition | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Past TB | NA | 0.0 | 10.9 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 100.0 | ||
| TB <2 years | NA | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | ||
| TB 2 to10 years | NA | 0.0 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 71.9 | ||
| TB>10 years | NA | 0.0 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | ||
| Contact with TB | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 100 | 0.0 | ||
(a)
The hospitalized non-active TB control group presented a pulmonary disease in 58.9% of the 73 enrolled individuals with a definitive diagnosis excluding active TB: bacterial or atypical pneumonia (34.9%); Bronchitis (11.6%), MOTT infection (11.6%), lung cancer (7.0%), COPD (7.0%), complicated Asthma (7.0%), Lung abscess (4.7%), post-TB Lung fibrosis (2. 3%), Mediastinal lymphadenopathy (2.3%) and Sarcoïdosis (2.3%);