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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 31.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Feb 18;20(5):643–649. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12468

Table 2.

Association between diabetic disease and type of tuberculosis

Pulmonary TB, smear positive n (%) Pulmonary TB, smear negative n (%) Pulmonary TB, Only 1 smear n (%) Pulmonary TB, smear not performed n (%) Extra-Pulmonary TB n (%) Relative risk (95% confidence interval)* n (%)
Patients with diabetes 60 (59) 9 (9) 7 (7) 5 (5) 20 (20) 1.21 (1.04–1.40)
Patients without diabetes 80 (46) 31 (18) 14 (8) 12 (7) 37 (21) Ref
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Relative risk for patients with diabetes presenting as smear positive restricted to those who were either smear positive or smear negative 60/69 (87%), as compared to patients with non-diabetes 80/111 (72%).