TABLE.

Baseline characteristics, smear conversion and treatment outcomes of TB patients with and without diabetes registered at Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi, India, in 2012

Characteristic	TB patients with DM (n = 66) n (%)	TB patients without DM (n = 392) n (%)	OR (95%CI)*
Sex
Male	40 (61)	186 (47)
Female	26 (39)	206 (53)
Age, years
<40	12 (18)	315 (80)	18.4 (9.3–36)†
≥40	54 (82)	77 (20)
Disease classification
Pulmonary smear-positive	38 (57)	151 (39)	2.2 (1.3–3.7)‡
Pulmonary smear-negative	17 (26)	80 (20)
Extra-pulmonary	11 (17)	161 (41)	0.3 (0.1–0.6)†
Type of TB
New	43 (66)	302 (77)
Previously treated	23 (34)	90 (23)	1.8 (1.0–3.1)‡
HIV status
Positive	0	17 (4)
Negative	66 (100)	370 (94)
Unknown	0	10 (2)
Smoking status
Smoker	9 (14)	49 (13)
Non-smoker	57 (86)	343 (87)
Sputum smear conversion
End of intensive phase
Converted	28 (74)	122 (83)
Not converted	9 (24)	18 (12)
Unknown	1 (2)	7 (5)
End of treatment
Converted	32 (88)	127 (91)
Not converted	2 (6)	3 (2)
Unknown	2 (6)	9 (7)
Treatment outcomes
Treatment success	58 (88)	362 (92)
Other outcomes	8 (12)	30 (8)

^*OR only shown for comparisons where there were significant differences.

^†P < 0.001.

^‡P < 0.05.

TB = tuberculosis; DM = diabetes mellitus; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.