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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Vitamin D and activated vitamin D in tuberculosis in equatorial Malaysia: a prospective clinical study

 

Tuberculosis

Controls

Number

172

95

Age in years: median (range)

29 (15–70)

28 (18–66)

Male: no. (%)

102 (59.3%)

34 (35.8%)

Malaysian: no. (%)

113/172 (65.7%)

86/95 (90.5%)

Current or ex-smoker

88/172 (51.2%)

27/95 (28.4%)

 Males

80/102 (78.4%)

23/34 (67.7%)

 Females

8/70 (11.4%),

4/61 (6.6%)

Body mass index (kg/m2): mean (range)

18.0 (9.95-31.1)

24.2 (16.1-37.2)

HIV positive: no. (%)

3/172 (1.7%)

-

Microscopy grade ≥2 plus: no. (%)

118/175 (67.4%)

-

 Males

75/103 (72.8%)

 

 Females

43/72 (59.7%)

 

Time to culture positivity in days: mean (standard deviation)

13.5 (3.9)

-

Radiological severity:

  

 Cavitary disease

94/144 (65.2%)

-

 Score: mean (standard deviation)

69.9 (34.5)

 

  Males

74.8 (33.7)

 

  Females

61.4 (35.4)

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