Table 2.
Baseline characteristics for TB-patients stratified by DM status
| Patients | Known DM (n = 96) | No known DM (n = 1816) | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Age, median (IQR) | 57.0 (47;70) | 44.0 (32; 54) | < 0.01 | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 65 | 67.7 | 1125 | 61.9 | 0.31 |
| Socio-economic factors | |||||
| Homeless | 4 | 4.2 | 194 | 10.7 | < 0.01 |
| Prison | 0 | 0 | 34 | 1.9 | 0.24 |
| Alcohol use | 19 | 19.8 | 671 | 36.9 | < 0.01 |
| Narcotics use | 7 | 7.3 | 155 | 8.5 | 0.81 |
| Cannabis use | 5 | 5.2 | 357 | 19.7 | < 0.01 |
| Tobacco use | 41 | 42.7 | 1074 | 59.1 | < 0.01 |
| Country or region of origin | |||||
| Denmark | 41 | 42.7 | 627 | 34.5 | 0.13 |
| Africa | 16 | 16.7 | 224 | 12.3 | 0.28 |
| Europe | 15 | 15.6 | 180 | 9.9 | 0.10 |
| Asia | 24 | 25.0 | 428 | 23.6 | 0.84 |
| Greenland | 0 | 0.0 | 346 | 19.1 | < 0.01 |
| North or South America |
0 0 |
0.0 0.0 |
5 6 |
0.3 0.3 |
1 1 |
| Type of TB | |||||
| Pulmonary TB | 74 | 77.1 | 1420 | 78.2 | 0.90 |
| Extrapulmonary TB | 22 | 22.9 | 396 | 21.8 | 0.90 |
| TB > 1 site | 10 | 10.4 | 97 | 5.3 | 0.06 |
| Outcome | |||||
| Mortality | 17 | 17.7 | 124 | 6.8 | < 0.01 |