Table 1. Profile of 802 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis reported in the state of São Paulo from 2006 to 2015.

Variable	n		%
Outcome of treatments
Cure	323		40.3
Abandonment	66		8.2
Treatment failure	275		34.3
Change of diagnosis	6		0.7
Non-tuberculosis death	55		6.8
Death due to tuberculosis	56		7.0
Transfer	5		0.7
No information	16		2.0
No. of treatments
One treatment	522		65.1
More than one treatment	280		34.9
Ethnicity
White	358		44.6
Black/brown	267		33.3
Others (yellow, indigenous)	6		0.7
No information	171		21.3
Age (years old)
≤ 14	7		0.9
15–29	197		24.5
30–59	532		66.3
≥ 60	66		8.2
Gender
Male	564		70.3
Female	238		29.7
Education level
≤ 7 years	354		44.1
> 7 years	311		38.8
No information	137		17.1
Clinical Form
Pulmonary	782		97.5
Extrapulmonary	20		2.5
Way of discovering
Outpatient demand	531		66.2
Urgency/emergency or during hospital stay	205		25.6
Active case search	38		4.7
No information	28		3.5
HIV Testing
Executed	735		91.6
Unexecuted	67		8.4
AIDS
Yes	104		13.0
No	621		77.4
No information*	77		9.6
Diabetes
Yes	103		12.8
No	699		87.2
Alcoholism
Yes	183		22.8
No	619		77.2
Mental illness
Yes	12		1.5
No	790		98.5
Use of illicit drugs
Yes	96		12.0
No	706		88.0
Smoking
Yes	70		8.7
No	732		91.3
Type of address
Default Address	742		92.5
Prisoner	44		5.5
Without fixed residence	16		3.0
Treatment type
Supervised	663		76.5
Self-administered		154	17.7
No Information		50	5.8

* 10 cases with HIV positive test but not classified with AIDS were considered without information.