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Table 4 Smoking attributable fraction for tuberculosis mortality

From: The reduction of tuberculosis risks by smoking cessation

 

N

Smoking Prevalence‡

HR†

95% CI

Smoking Attributable Fraction §

   Current smoker

90,580

25.55%

3.37

(1.4~8.1)

37.7%

   Ex-smoker

23,787

3.65%

2.02

(0.7~6.0)

6.9%

   Non- smoker

270,488

 

1.00

  

Total

    

44.6%

  1. † : HR adjusted for age, gender, education and drinking, BMI and DM history with nonsmokers as reference group (from table 2)
  2. ‡ : Smoking prevalence from Wen et al. [25]
  3. §: Smoking attributable fraction = Prevalence*(HR - 1)/{1 + [Prevalence*(HR - 1)]}
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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