Table 1.
Characteristics of the study participants.
| Characteristics | ATAPC |
CC |
CLC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TB patients (N = 613) | Controls (N = 603) | P | TB patients (N = 580) | Controls (N = 605) | P | TB patients(N = 208) | LTBI individuals (N = 200) | Healthy controls (N = 204) | P | |
| Age mean ± SD, years | 34.5 ± 14.5 | 34.6 ± 13.8 | 0.909a | 36.6 ± 15.6 | 37.2 ± 15.7 | 0.506a | 38.8 ± 17.0 | 49.1 ± 15.9 | 45.7 ± 14.9 | <0.001b |
| Male, n (%) | 392 (63.9) | 404 (67.0) | 0.263c | 295 (50.9) | 301 (49.8) | 0.702c | 107 (51.2) | 95 (47.5) | 93 (45.6) | 0.510c |
ATAPC, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture cohort; CC, Chengdu cohort; CLC, Chengdu latent tuberculosis infection cohort; TB, tuberculosis; LTBI, latent tuberculosis infection.
aCalculated by independent sample t-test.
bCalculated by one-way ANOVA.
cCalculated by χ2 test.