Table 1.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and tuberculosis patients characteristics.
| Characteristics | Groups |
p-value | OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDR-TB (f/%) (n = 73) | TB (f/%) (n = 219) | |||
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 47 (64.4) | 149 (68.0) | 0.666 | 0.85 (0.49–1.48) |
| Female | 26 (35.6) | 70 (32.0) | Ref | |
| Age (years) | 0.323 | |||
| ≥ 45 | 51 (69.9) | 137 (62.6) | 1.39 (0.79–2.45) | |
| < 45 | 22 (30.1) | 82 (37.4) | Ref | |
| Level of education | ||||
| Low | 47 (64.4) | 86 (39.3) | <0.001* | 2.79 (1.61–4.85) |
| High | 26 (35.6) | 133 (60.7) | Ref | |
| Working status | <0.001* | |||
| Work | 49 (67.1) | 73 (33.3) | 4.08 (2.33–7.17) | |
| Not work | 24 (32.9) | 146 (66.7) | Ref | |
| History of close contact to patients with MDR-TB and TB | 0.006* | |||
| Yes | 54 (74.0) | 120 (54.8) | 2.35 (1.30–4.22) | |
| No | 19 (26.0) | 99 (45.2) | Ref | |
| Smoking | 0.413 | |||
| Yes | 35 (47.9) | 91 (41.6) | 1.29 (0.76–2.21) | |
| No | 38 (52.1) | 128 (58.4) | Ref | |
| Alcohol consumption | 0.009* | |||
| Yes | 6 (8.2) | 3 (1.4) | 6.45 (1.57–26.48) | |
| No | 67 (91.8) | 216 (98.6) | Ref | |
| Cavitary pulmonary | <0.001* | |||
| Yes | 25 (34.2) | 1 (0.5) | 113.54 (15.02–858.54) | |
| No | 48 (65.8) | 218 (99.5) | Ref | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 0.023* | |||
| Yes | 22 (30.1) | 37 (16.9) | 2.12 (1.15–3.91) | |
| No | 51 (69.9) | 182 (83.1) | Ref | |
| Nutritional status | <0.001* | |||
| Underweight | 41 (56.2) | 23 (10.5) | 10.92 (5.79–20.56) | |
| Normal | 32 (43.8) | 196 (89.5) | Ref | |
| TB outside the lung | <0.001* | |||
| Yes | 11 (15.1) | 1 (0.5) | 38.68 (4.89–305.43) | |
| No | 62 (84.9) | 218 (99.5) | Ref | |
Abbreviation: CI, Confidence Interval; MDR TB, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis; TB, Tuberculosis; OR, Odds Ratio; *,statistically significant.