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Table 4 Characteristics of the COPD patients selected under scenario 5 at index date

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

 

Not developing TB (N = 22,920)

Developing TB (N = 674)

pvalue

Age (years)

54.2 ± 23.1

65.9 ± 11.4

<0.001*

Follow-up duration (years)

8.6 ± 2.5

4.6 ± 2.6

<0.001*

Male

14,110 (61.6)

525 (77.9)

<0.001#

Diabetes mellitus

1,566 (6.8)

55 (8.2)

0.179#

Malignancy

341 (1.5)

8 (1.2)

0.524#

lung cancer

36 (0.2)

1 (0.1)

>0.999‡

other cancer

305 (1.3)

7 (1.0)

0.513#

Autoimmune disease

68 (0.3)

2 (0.5)

>0.999‡

End-stage renal disease

35 (0.2)

2 (0.3)

0.285‡

Liver cirrhosis

8 (0.0)

0 (0)

>0.999‡

Pneumoconiosis

2 (0.0)

0 (0)

>0.999‡

Transplantation

4 (0.0)

0 (0)

>0.999‡

HIV/AIDS

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Low income

335 (1.5)

11 (1.6)

0.717#

  1. HIV: human immunodeficiency virus, AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; TB: tuberculosis;
  2. Data are shown as mean ± SD or No. (%) unless otherwise indicated.
  3. * calculated by the independent-samples t test.
  4. # calculated by the chi-square test.
  5. ‡ calculated by Fisher’s exact test.
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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