Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics and risk factors for TB among study participants, stratified by TB status as determined by sputum Xpert or culture.
| Variables | Total N = 2075 (%) |
TB cases N = 259 (%) |
No TB N = 1816 (%) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median age (IQR) | 33 (28, 40) | 33 (28, 39) | 33 (28, 40) | 0.5 |
| Prison Unit | <0.001 | |||
| PED | 889 (42.8) | 65 (25.1) | 824 (45.0) | |
| EPJFC | 840 (40.5) | 144 (55.6) | 696 (38.3) | |
| IPCG | 346 (16.9) | 50 (19.3) | 296 (16.3) | |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.2 | |||
| Mixed | 1279 (61.6) | 158 (61.0) | 1121 (61.4) | |
| White | 508 (24.5) | 56 (21.6) | 452 (24.9) | |
| Black | 253 (12.2) | 38 (14.7) | 215 (11.8) | |
| Indigenous | 33 (1.6) | 7 (2.7) | 26 (1.4) | |
| Asian | 2 (0.1) | – | 2 (0.1) | |
| <8 years of schooling | 1546 (74.5) | 198 (76,4) | 1348 (74.2) | 0.23 |
| Current smoker | 1520 (73.3) | 208 (80.3) | 1312 (72.2) | 0.006 |
| Illicit drug use over the last year | 1460 (70.4) | 203 (78.4) | 1257 (69.2) | 0.003 |
| Previously incarcerated | 1557 (75.0) | 214 (82.6) | 1343 (74.0) | 0.003 |
| BCG vaccinated | 1862 (89.7) | 223 (86.1) | 1639 (90.3) | 0.04 |
| Previous TB | 293 (14.1) | 55 (21.2) | 238 (13.1) | <0.001 |
| Report any WHO TB symptoms | 1512 (72.9) | 196 (75.7) | 1316 (72.5) | 0.28 |
| Report cough | 1255 (60.5) | 172 (66.4) | 1083 (59.6) | 0.04 |
| TB contact | 1565 (75.4) | 211 (81.5) | 1354 (74.6) | 0.16 |