TABLE 1.
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients as recorded in the tuberculosis treatment card, by sex and age, National Tuberculosis Program, Viet Nam, 2008
| Characteristic | New pulmonary smear-positive n (%) | Retreatment smear-positive n (%) | Extra-pulmonary n (%) | New pulmonary smear-negative n (%) | All other/transfer in n (%) | Total n (%) |
| Total | 1687 | 274 | 615 | 470 | 179 | 3225 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 1146 (67.9) | 204 (74.5) | 300 (48.8) | 304 (64.7) | 113 (63.1) | 2067 (64.1) |
| Female | 456 (27.0) | 56 (20.4) | 273 (44.4) | 138 (29.4) | 50 (27.9) | 973 (30.2) |
| Not recorded | 85 (5.0) | 14 (5.1) | 42 (6.8) | 28 (6.0) | 16 (8.9) | 185 (5.7) |
| Age group, years | ||||||
| 0–14 | 2 (0.1) | 0 | 20 (3.3) | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.6) | 24 (0.7) |
| 15–24 | 174 (10.3) | 9 (3.3) | 98 (15.9) | 55 (11.7) | 14 (7.8) | 350 (10.9) |
| 25–34 | 304 (18.0) | 36 (13.1) | 167 (27.2) | 88 (18.7) | 20 (11.2) | 615 (19.1) |
| 35–44 | 322 (19.1) | 53 (19.3) | 98 (15.9) | 62 (13.2) | 20 (11.2) | 555 (17.2) |
| 45–54 | 353 (20.9) | 79 (28.8) | 105 (17.1) | 88 (18.7) | 45 (25.1) | 670 (20.8) |
| 55–64 | 198 (11.7) | 37 (13.5) | 44 (7.2) | 64 (13.6) | 29 (16.2) | 372 (11.5) |
| ≥65 | 331 (19.6) | 60 (21.9) | 79 (12.8) | 112 (23.8) | 47 (26.3) | 629 (19.5) |
| Not registered | 3 (0.2) | 0 | 4 (0.7) | 0 | 3 (1.7) | 10 (0.3) |