Table 4. Screening TB patients for DM at the 10 health centres: data combined for the four reporting periods stratified by type, location and available of DM service.
| Characteristics of
the health centres |
No. of TB
patients registered |
No. (%)
screened with RBG |
No. with
RBG≥ 6.1 mmol/l |
No. (%)
screened with FBG |
No. (%) with known
or newly diagnosed DM |
% of newly
diagnosed DM * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | ||||||
| Public (Reference) | 3,941 | 3,641 (87.8) | 1,137 | 934 (82.2) | 68 (2.0) | 72.1 |
| Private | 649 | 555 (85.5) | 175 | 159 (90.9) | 24 (4.3) | 70.8 |
| OR (95% CI) | 0.82 (0.65-1.04) | 2.16 (1.26-3.69) | 2.26 (1.40-3.62) | 0.94 (0.34-2.63) | ||
| P-value | 0.101 | 0.005 | 0.001 | 0.909 | ||
| Location | ||||||
| Urban (Reference) | 3,618 | 3,151 (87.1) | 1,050 | 863 (82.2) | 75 (2.4) | 68.0 |
| Peri-urban | 643 | 585 (91.0) | 163 | 139 (85.5) | 7 (1.2) | 85.7 |
| OR (95% CI) | 1.50 (1.12-1.99) | 1.26 (0.79-1.99) | 0.50 (0.23-1.08) | 2.82 (0.32-24.77) | ||
| P-value | 0.006 | 0.334 | 0.079 | 0.349 | ||
| Rural | 329 | 280 (85.4) | 99 | 91 (91.9) | 10 (3.6) | 90.0 |
| OR (95% CI) | 0.85 (0.62-1.17) | 2.47 (1.18-5.17) | 1.52 (0.78-2.97) | 4.24 (0.51-35.36) | ||
| P-value | 0.307 | 0.017 | 0.222 | 0.182 | ||
|
Available DM
service |
||||||
| Yes (Reference) | 1,204 | 1,023 (85.0) | 328 | 248 (75.6) | 33 (3.2) | 69.7 |
| None | 3,386 | 2,993 (88.4) | 984 | 845 (85.9) | 59 (2.0) | 72.9 |
| OR (95% CI) | 1.35 (1.11-1.63) | 1.96 (1.44-2.67) | 0.60 (0.39-0.93) | 1.17 (0.46-2.99) | ||
| P-value | 0.002 | <0.001 | 0.022 | 0.745 |
* Percentage of newly diagnosed DM among total number of DM
TB = tuberculosis; DM = diabetes mellitus; RBG = random blood glucose; FBG = fasting blood glucose