Table 1. Characteristics of elderly TB patients registered during January 2014 to December 2015.
| Category | All TB Patients | Treatment Outcomes for All TB Patients | TB Patients ≥60 | Treatment Outcomes for TB Patients ≥60 | Proportion of Elderly TB Patients among all TB Patients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Favorable | Unfavorable | P-value | Favorable | Unfavorable | P-value | ||||
| Total, n | 15,429 | 12,417 (80.5%) |
3,012 (19.5%) |
514 | 351 (68.3%) |
163 (31.7%) |
3.3% | ||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 9,541 (61.8%) | 7,669 (80.4%) |
1,872 (19.6%) |
0.708 | 312 (60.7%) | 220 (70.5%) |
92 (29.5%) |
0.211 | 3.3% |
| Female | 5,888 (38.2%) | 4,748 (80.6%) |
1,140 (19.4%) |
202 (39.3%) | 131 (64.9%) |
71 (35.1%) |
3.4% | ||
| Disease Category | |||||||||
| Extra-pulmonary | 2,543 (16.5%) | 1,863 (73.3%) |
680 (26.7%) |
<0.05 | 95 (18.5%) | 52 (54.7%) |
43 (45.3%) |
0.004 | 3.7% |
| PBC | 9,311 (60.3%) | 7,802 (83.8%) |
1,509 (16.2%) |
267 (52.0%) | 195 (73.0%) |
72 (27.0) |
2.8% | ||
| PCD | 3,575 (23.2%) | 2,752 (77.0%) |
823 (23.0%) |
152 (29.5%) | 104 (68.4%) |
48 (31.6%) |
4.2% | ||
| DOT Status | |||||||||
| On DOT | 11,120 (72.1%) | 9,143 (82.2%) |
1,977 (17.8%) |
<0.001 | 386 (75.1%) | 274 (71.0%) |
112 (29.0%) |
0.03 | 3.5% |
| Not on DOT | 4,309 (27.9%) | 3,274 (76.0%) |
1,035 (24.0%) |
128 (24.9%) | 77 (60.2%) |
51 (39.8%) |
3.0% | ||
| HIV Results | |||||||||
| Positive | 7,696 (49.9%) | 5,806 (75.4%) |
1,890 (24.6%) |
<0.001 | 157 (30.5%) | 103 (65.6%) |
54 (34.4%) |
0.445 | 2.0% |
| Negative | 7,733 (50.1%) | 6,611 (85.5%) |
1,122 (14.5%) |
357 (69.5%) | 248 (69.5%) |
109 (30.5%) |
4.6% | ||
PBC, pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed; PCD, pulmonary clinically diagnosed. 95% Confidence interval, Pearson’s X2.