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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of included and non-included TB cases

From: Effect of chronic kidney disease on all-cause mortality in tuberculosis disease: an Australian cohort study

 

Included

Excluded

P-value

Total

653 (83.3)

131 (16.7)

 

Sex, male

360 (55.1)

70 (53.4)

0.722

Age, years

44.3 ± 19.8

37.7 ± 17.4

 < 0.000

Age, ≥ 65 years

125 (19.1)

11 (9.4)

0.012

Country of birth, overseas

635 (97.2)

114 (87.0)

0.000

High TB prevalence of country of birth

461 (70.6)

84 (64.1)

0.142

Previous TB

37 (5.7)

7 (5.3)

0.884

Site of disease

   

 Pulmonary

307 (47.0)

68 (51.9)

0.098

 Pulmonary plus other site/s

102 (15.6)

11 (8.4)

 Extra-pulmonary

244 (37.4)

52 (39.7)

Culture-based diagnosis

520 (79.6)

90 (68.7)

0.006

Drug resistancea

   

 Pan-susceptible

463 (89.0)

80 (88.9)

0.139

 Resistant to at least one drug, but not MDR-TB

49 (9.4)

6 (6.7)

 MDR-TB

8 (1.5)

4 (4.4)

eGFRb, mls

83.6 ± 16.1

88.6 ± 3.8

0.413

eGFR categoriesb

   

 ≥ 60 ml/min

602 (92.1)

7 (100.0)

0.898

 45–59 ml/min

18 (2.6)

0 (0.0)

 30–44 ml/min

15 (2.4)

0 (0.0)

 < 30 ml/min

18 (2.9)

0 (0.0)

Diabetes statusc, yes

82 (12.6)

5 (4.8)

0.021

  1. Mean ± SD; n (%)
  2. aFor culture positive cases only (n = 520 included cases, n = 90 excluded cases)
  3. beGFR data available in only 7 of excluded cases
  4. cDiabetes status data available in only 104 of excluded cases