TABLE 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients enrolled in this study.
| Characteristics | No. of patients (%) |
Crude OR (95% CI) | P-value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P-value | ||
| Subclinical TB cases (N = 69) | Active TB cases (N = 311) | Total (N = 380) | |||||
| Age (years) | |||||||
| < 25 | 21 (30.4) | 58 (18.6) | 79 (20.8) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| 25–44 | 31 (44.9) | 101 (32.5) | 132 (34.7) | 0.848 (0.446–1.610) | 0.614 | 0.972 (0.494–1.914) | 0.934 |
| 45–64 | 11 (15.9) | 73 (23.5) | 84 (22.1) | 0.416 (0.186–0.933) | 0.033 | 0.528 (0.223–1.251) | 0.147 |
| ≥ 65 | 6 (8.7) | 79 (25.4) | 85 (22.4) | 0.210 (0.080–0.553) | 0.002 | 0.280 (0.103–0.766) | 0.013 |
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 52 (75.4) | 232 (74.6) | 284 (74.7) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| Female | 17 (24.6) | 79 (25.4) | 96 (25.3) | 0.960 (0.525–1.757) | 0.895 | 0.897 (0.470–1.713) | 0.743 |
| Residence | |||||||
| Rural | 37 (53.6) | 176 (56.6) | 213 (56.1) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| Urban | 32 (46.4) | 135 (43.4) | 167 (43.9) | 1.128 (0.668–1.903) | 0.653 | 1.048 (0.597–1.839) | 0.869 |
| Lesions in pulmonary | |||||||
| Single | 37 (53.6) | 63 (20.3) | 100 (26.3) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| Multiple | 32 (46.4) | 248 (79.7) | 280 (73.7) | 0.220 (0.127–0.380) | <0.001 | 0.248 (0.141–0.434) | < 0.001 |
| Cavitation | |||||||
| No | 59 (85.5) | 266 (85.5) | 325 (85.5) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| Yes | 10 (14.5) | 45 (14.5) | 55 (14.5) | 1.002 (0.478–2.102) | 0.996 | 1.126 (0.508–2.497) | 0.770 |
| Comorbidity | |||||||
| No | 64 (92.8) | 279 (89.7) | 343 (90.3) | Ref. | Ref. | ||
| Yes | 5 (7.2) | 32 (10.3) | 37 (9.7) | 0.681 (0.255–1.817) | 0.443 | 0.875 (0.303–2.531) | 0.806 |