Table 2.
Incidence rates of tuberculosis stratified by the type of immune suppression and incidence rate ratios in analysis pooling of solid organ transplant recipients and patients on dialysis.
| Solid organ transplant recipients (n = 1,989) |
Patients on chronic dialysis (n = 1,305) |
All patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IR/100,000 PY (95% CI) | IR/100,000 PY (95% CI) | IRR (95% CI)∗ | |
| All patients | 41 (15-109) | 262 (145-473) | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 17 (2-124) | 109 (35-339) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| Female | 74 (2-230) | 550 (275-1,110) | 4.3 (1.4-13.7) |
| Age | |||
| <50 years | 17 (2-119) | 364 (152-877) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| ≥50 years | 78 (3-243) | 212 (95-473) | 2.1 (0.7-6.1) |
| Year of study inclusion | |||
| 2004-2009 | 51 (16-156) | 125 (40-387) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| 2010-2017 | 25 (4-184) | 446 (223-892) | 1.8 (0.6-4.9) |
| Origin | |||
| Denmark | 11 (2-81) | 31 (4-218) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| Greenland | 0 | 2,579 (645-10313) | 42.2 (5.8-306) |
| Other low TB endemic countries | 0 | 0 | NA |
| Other medium/high TB endemic countries | 454 (147-1,408) | 1,133 (567-2,266) | 49.2 (10.9-222) |
IR: incidence rate; IRR: incidence rate ratio; TB: tuberculosis. ∗All variables were included in multivariate analyses.