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Table 2 Risk factors associated with LTBI among male and female prisoners

From: Active and latent tuberculosis in Brazilian correctional facilities: a cross-sectional study

 

Male (N = 2752)

Female (N = 511)

Variables

Crude PR

Adjusted PR

Crude PR

Adjusted PR

Sociodemographics

    

  Age, per year

0.99 (0.98-0.99)

1.02 (0.67-1.53)

1.03 (1.00-1.05)

1.03 (1.01-1.06)

  Marital status, single

0.89 (0.76-1.04)

 

0.84 (0.48-1.48)

 

  Race

    

   White

   

   Mixed

1.31 (1.08-1.59)

1.34 (1.10-1.63)

1.36 (0.69-2.71)

   Black

1.40 (1.08-1.81)

1.43 (1.10-1.86)

2.32 (0.89-6.04)

   Indigenous

1.28 (0.63-2.60)

1.25 (0.59-2.68)

 

   Asian

1.72 (1.07-2.76)

1.80(1.12-2.90)

 

  Resides in MS

0.83 (0.71-0.98)

 

1.13 (0.67-1.89)

 

  No education

0.82 (0.69-0.96)

 

0.68 (0.41-1.13)

 

  Diabetes

1.14 (0.71-1.82)

 

0.34 (0.05-2.41)

 

  Current smoker

1.21 (1.03-1.42)

 

1.74 (1.01-2.98)

 

  Drug use over the last year

1.21 (1.02-1.42)

1.29 (1.08-1.54)

1.05 (0.62-1.75)

 

BCG scar

    

  Previous TB

1.50 (1.14-1.98)

 

3.14 (1.42-6.91)

3.79 (1.52-9.47)

  HIV-positive

1.34 (0.79-2.27)

 

0.90 (0.13-6.44)

 

Prison

    

  Previously incarcerated

1.24 (1.05-1.48)

 

1.39 (0.83-2.33)

2.44 (1.17-5.10)*

  Knows someone with TB

1.16 (0.98-1.37)

 

2.55 (1.54-4.24)

2.02 (1.16-3.52)

  Prisoners per cell, per person

0.99 (0.98-1.00)

 

1.02 (1.01-1.04)

1.02 (1.01-1.04)

  Duration of incarceration, years

1.04 (1.01-1.07)

1.04 (1.01-1.07)

1.06 (0.87-1.31)

1.34 (1.06-1.70)*

  Other prisoners coughing in the cell

1.04 (0.88-1.24)

 

1.05 (0.61-1.78)

 
  1. *Adjusted for significant interaction term between these variables (p = 0.01).