Table 1.

 The demographic data of TB patients and controls

	TB patients	Controls	P‐values
Age (years), mean ± SD	41.6 ± 12.7	39.2 ± 11.7	0.652
Gender, n (%)
Male	58 (57.4%)	64 (60.4%)	0.774
Female	43 (42.6%)	42 (39.6%)
Exposure to TB patients
Yes	13 (12.9%)	8 (7.5%)	0.240
No	88 (87.1)	98 (92.5%)
BMI
<21 kg m−2	20 (19.8%)	16 (15.1%)	0.457
21–25 kg m−2	81 (80.2%)	90 (84.9%)

BMI, body mass index; TB, tuberculosis.