Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with chronic obstructive airway disease in Taiwan: a nationwide cohort study

Table 2 Cox regression analysis for risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis

Variables	pvalue	Hazard ratio	95% confidence interval
			Lower	Upper
Age (10 years)	<0.001	1.464	1.406	1.524
Male	<0.001	2.181	1.901	2.501
COPD	<0.001	2.468	2.205	2.762
Diabetes mellitus	0.001	1.491	1.242	1.790
End-stage renal disease	0.037	2.602	1.059	6.393
Liver cirrhosis	0.007	6.958	1.682	28.776

Cox regression analysis for factors possibly associated with the development of active tuberculosis in the 23,594 cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) selected under scenario 5 and the 47,188 non-COPD controls.

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