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The epidemiological characteristics and infection risk factors for extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis infection in China from 2017 to 2021

BMC Infectious Diseases volume 23, Article number: 488 (2023) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) complicated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) infection can aggravate the disease, but there have been few reports.

Methods

Retrospective analysis was used to collect the clinical data of PTB patients with pathogen positive in a teaching hospital from 2017 to 2021. We describe the incidence, the invasive site of EPTB patients, and analyze the infection risk factors for PTB with EPTB by univariate and multivariate logistic regression models. We also compared the complications, disease burden with chi-square test and rank-sum test.

Results

A total of 1806 PTB were included, of which 263 (14.6%) were complicated with EPTB. The common invasive sites for EPTB were neck lymph nodes (16.49%), intestines (16.13%), and meninges (10.75%). Age ≤ 40 (OR = 1.735; 95%CI [1.267–2.376]; P = 0.001), malnutrition (OR = 2.029; 95%CI [1.097–3.753]; P = 0.022), anemia (OR = 1.739; 95%CI[1.127–2.683]; P = 0.012), and osteoporosis (OR = 4.147; 95%CI [1.577–10.905]; P = 0.004) were all independent risk factors for PTB infection with EPTB. The incidence of extrathoracic hydrothorax, intestinal bacterial infection, urinary tract bacterial infection, and abdominal bacterial infection were higher in patients with PTB with EPTB. PTB with EPTB patients also had longer median hospitalization durations (19 vs. 14 days), during which time they incurred higher total costs, laboratory test costs, imaging examination costs, and drug use costs.

Conclusion

This study found important risk factors for PTB complicated with EPTB, such as age ≤ 40, malnutrition, anemia, and osteoporosis. PTB with EPTB patients have more extrapulmonary complications and higher hospitalization disease burden.

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Introduction

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease and is still an important cause of death worldwide. According to recent statistics, approximately 25% of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis [1]. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients infected and dying of tuberculosis, globally, has increased, reversing the declining trend over recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) global tuberculosis report 2022 identified that in 2021, there were about 10.6 million new tuberculosis patients, and 1.6 million people died of tuberculosis [2]. Thus, tuberculosis poses a serious threat to global public health and remains an important public health problem worldwide.

Compared with the widespread concern associated with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has not received much attention. EPTB refers to infection of organs and body sites outside the lung, trachea, bronchus, and pleura, by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. EPTB can affect almost any organ and results in atypical clinical symptoms and atypical imaging findings. In addition, the difficulty in acquiring samples and the low etiological positive rate make the effective diagnosis and management of EPTB challenging [3,4,5]. Compared with PTB, the increase of EPTB is more significant. The 2020 global tuberculosis report states that 16% of all tuberculosis patients, in 2019, presented also EPTB[6]. In the United States and Europe, the proportion of EPTB cases is between 20% and 53% [7,8,9]. Since EPTB is neither a notifiable disease nor routinely managed, in China, it is frequently misdiagnosed or missed. Consequently, a large number of EPTB patients are excluded from public health reports. One study reported that 33.4% of TB inpatients in Beijing are EPTB [10].

The proportion of PTB patients with EPTB is also high. In the United States, between 1993 and 2006, the proportion of PTB patients with EPTB was 6% [11]. The results of multicenter research in China from 2011 to 2017 showed that the proportion of PTB patients with EPTB was 11.93% [12]. Although PTB complicated with EPTB infection can aggravate the disease, prolong the course of treatment, and increase the disease burden, there have been few reports on PTB patients with EPTB. A greater understanding of the epidemic characteristics and risk factors associated with PTB with EPTB should play an important role in formulating corresponding prevention and control measures. Thus, in this study, we analyze the epidemiological characteristics, risk factors, complications, and economic burden of PTB patients complicated with EPTB, to provide reference data for the early detection and treatment of PTB patients complicated with EPTB.

Materials and methods

Data sources

Single-institution, retrospective analysis was used to collect the case information of pathogen-positive patients admitted to the Hangzhou Chest Hospital from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2021. This study was approved (approval number 2021 − 232) by the Ethics Committee of Hangzhou Thoracic Hospital.

The case inclusion criteria were as follows: culture positive (solid or liquid sputum culture) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis; and rifampicin drug sensitivity data for isolate determined by either a drug sensitivity test or GeneXpertMTB/RIF detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA. The following exclusion criteria were applied: (1) cases with no etiological results, sputum smear positive only, aseptic identification or absence of rifampicin drug sensitivity data, (2) patients with hospital stays shorter than 2 days, (3) cases with incomplete clinical data. The case information on first admission was used for patients hospitalized multiple times. Tuberculous pleurisy and bronchial tuberculosis are classified as pulmonary tuberculosis by the national diagnostic criteria of pulmonary tuberculosis (WS288-2017) [13]. The definition and classification of EPTB were carried out in accordance with the Chinese national guidelines for the diagnosis of EPTB [14].

Date collection

Clinical data and laboratory results were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). The following data were collected: (1) demographic parameters, including the sex, age, habitation, and occupation of the patient; (2) history of tuberculosis treatment; (3) sputum smear results; (4) Mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampicin drug sensitivity; (5) ICU admission; (6) underlying diseases, (7) Body infected sites by EPTB; (8) complications in hospital; (9) length of hospital stay; (10) and economic burden, including the total cost of hospitalization, laboratory testing costs, imaging examination costs, and drug use costs.

Method process

Our research process was shown in Fig. 1, and the specific process was as follows: according to the exclusion criteria, the final included patients were divided into patients with PTB alone and PTB with EPTB according to whether they have EPTB. We described the epidemiological characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis patients. We used univariate and multivariate logistic regression to analyze the risk factors of PTB with EPTB infection, and used chi-square to compare the complications of. We analyzed the disease burden of burdern PTB alone and PTB with EPTB using rank-sum analysis.

Statistical analysis

SPSS 23.0 was used for statistical analysis. The chi-squared and Fisher’s exact tests were used to analyze categorical variables. The t-test and Wilcoxon rank-sum test were used to analyze continuous variables. Variables with a P-value < 0.10 in the univariate analysis were entered into a multivariate analysis using the multiple logistic regression method to determine the independent variables that were associated with PTB with EPTB infection. Variables with a P-value < 0.05 were considered independent risk factors, and the results are presented as the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the length of hospital stay and economic burden of disease during hospitalization. All tests were two-tailed, and a P-value < 0.05 was considered significant.

Results

Patient characteristics

The application of inclusion/exclusion criteria to HIS data identified 1806 patients hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis, from 2017 to 2021, suitable for inclusion in this study; 1543 (85.44%) with PTB and 263 (14.56%) with EPTB. Of the study cohort, 1238 (68.55%) were males, and 568 (31.45%) were female; 52 patients were readmitted within 2 months, and 186 patients were admitted multiple times within 1 year. The median age of the cohort was 55 years old; the youngest patient was 5 years old, and the oldest was 97 years old. 593 (32.83%) cases were less than 40 years old, and 1213 (67.17%) cases were more than 40 years old. The cohort comprised 928 (51.38%) patients from rural areas and 878 (48.62%) from urban areas. The cohort included 587 (32.50%) farmers, 94 (5.20%) workers, 85 (4.71%) students, 133 (7.36%) unemployed people, 213 (11.79%) employees, 258 (14.29%) retirees and 436 (24.14%) Other jobs. Ninety-five (5.26%) of the cohort were admitted to ICU. There were 994 (55.04%) sputum smear-positive patients, 1463 (81.01%) newly treated patients, and 343 (19.00%) retreated patients. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 781 (43.24%) patients were resistant to rifampicin. Among the underlying diseases, hypertension was found in 329 (18.22%) patients, diabetes in 313 (17.33%), coronary in 233 (12.90%), anemia in 163 (9.03%), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/chronic bronchitis in 156 (8.64%). The most common complications during hospitalization were pulmonary infections (675 cases; 37.38%), medicated hepatitis (354 cases; 19.60%), hypoproteinemia (274 cases; 15.17%), and respiratory failure (160 cases; 8.86%). The median length of stay was 14 days, the median total cost during hospitalization was 1.75 × 104 Renminbi (RMB), the median cost of laboratory testing was 3.79 × 103 RMB, the median cost of imaging examination was 4.15 × 102 RMB, and the median cost of drugs was 0.49 × 104 RMB.

Body infected sites by EPTB

The body sites most commonly infected by EPTB were neck lymph nodes (46 cases; 16.49%), intestines (45 cases; 16.13%), meninges (30 cases; 10.75%), throat (26 cases; 9.32%), and thoracic vertebrae (23 cases; 8.24%). Based on the classification of system and function, the most common sites of infection were the lymphatic system (79 cases; 28.32%), digestive system (64 cases; 22.93%), motor system (58 cases; 20.79%), head and facial features (56 cases; 20.07%), and urogenital system (13 cases; 4.66%: Table 1).

Table 1 Tissues or organs infected by EPTB
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Analysis of risk factors associated with EPTB

Univariate analysis showed that gender (female), age ≤ 40, rural habitation, unemployed, sputum smear positive, rifampicin resistance, COPD/chronic bronchitis, Bronchiectasia, Hypertension, Coronary, Diabetes, Malnutrition, Anemia, and Osteoporosis were significantly associated with PTB with EPTB infection. Multivariate regression analysis showed that age ≤ 40 (OR [95% CI] = 1.735 [1.267–2.376]; P = 0.001), malnutrition (OR [95% CI] = 2.029 [1.097–3.753]; P = 0.024), anemia (OR [95% CI] = 1.739 [1.127–2.683]; P = 0.012), and osteoporosis (OR [95% CI] = 4.147 [1.577–10.905]; P = 0.004) are independent risk factors for PTB with EPTB infection. By contrast, positive sputum smear (OR [95% CI] = 0.738 [0.560–0.973]; P = 0.031), Mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampicin resistance (OR [95% CI] = 0.681 [0.515–0.900]; P = 0.007), bronchiectasis (OR [95% CI] = 0.326 [0.117–0.910]; P = 0.032), and diabetes mellitus (OR [95% CI] = 0.568 [0.357–0.904]; P = 0.017) are protective factors for PTB with EPTB infection (Table 2).

Table 2 Epidemiological characteistics and infection risk factors of pathogen positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB)
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Analysis of complications and disease burden associated with EPTB

Compared with PTB patients, PTB with EPTB patients had a higher incidence of extrathoracic effusion (2.72% vs. 7.98%; P = 0.000), intestinal infection (0.13% vs. 3.80%; P = 0.000), urinary tract infection (0.71% vs. 2.28%; P = 0.027), and abdominal infection (0% vs. 0.76%; P = 0.021), and lower incidence of hemoptysis (4.41% vs. 1.52%; P = 0.014) (Table 3). The median hospitalization duration of PTB with EPTB patients was longer (19 vs. 14 days; P = 0.005), and the median total cost of hospitalization (2.09 × 104 vs.1.68 × 104 RMB; P = 0.000), median laboratory diagnosis cost (0.44 × 104 vs. 0.37 × 104 RMB; P = 0.000), median image diagnosis cost (4.95 × 102 vs. 4.15 × 102 RMB; P = 0.000), and median drug cost during hospitalization (0.61 × 104 vs. 0.47 × 104 RMB; P = 0.000) were all significantly higher for PTB with EPTB patients than for PTB patients (Table 4).

Table 3 Complications of pathogen positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB)
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Table 4 Disease burden of pathogen positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB)
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Discussion

We conducted a detailed analysis of the epidemiological features, clinical characteristics, infection risk factors, and disease burden of patients presenting with PTB and PTB with EPTB at a hospital in southern China from 2017 to 2021. Of the 1806 cases of pathogen-positive PTB we analyzed, 263 (14.56%) cases were PTB with EPTB. This is a higher proportion of PTB with EPTB cases than the 6.1% cases reported in a study of PTB patients presenting at the Beijing Chest Hospital from 2008 to 2017 [10] and the 11.93% cases reported in a multicenter study in China from 2011 to 2017 [12]. By contrast, the proportion of PTB with EPTB cases reported in a study from Hunan Chest Hospital in 2016 was higher at 22.7% [15]. These differences may reflect different sources of disease in different regions and hospitals. All these data show, however, that patients with PTB with EPTB account for a significant proportion of the total PTB patients, and this proportion is likely to increase year by year. EPTB is often overlooked because the clinical manifestations of EPTB are diverse, the symptoms are not typical, and the etiology is difficult to obtain. The routine screening of patients with PTB for EPTB infection, in clinical practice, would significantly improve the effectiveness of treatment of such patients and thus their prognosis.

The site of EPTB infection may vary from region to region or hospital to hospital. In the United States, lymphoid TB (of which more than 60% of cases are neck lymphoid TB) is the most prevalent form, followed by pleural TB [11]. In Germany, the most common forms of EPTB are lymphoid TB (47%), pleural TB (16%), and genitourinary TB (10%)[16]. In the UK, the most common forms of EPTB are lymphoid TB (49%), pleural TB (10%), and gastrointestinal TB (7%) [16]. In Korea, lymph node TB (28.3%) is the main form, followed by abdominal TB (18.4%) and disseminated TB (14.5%) [17]. A multicenter study in China showed that the most common cases were pleurisy TB (50.15%), bronchial TB (14.96%), neck lymph node TB (7.24%), meningitis TB (7.23%), and peritonitis TB (4.79%) [12]. According to the new diagnostic standard in China, pleurisy TB and bronchial TB are included in pulmonary TB. We showed that the most common sites for EPTB are neck lymph nodes (16.49%), intestines (16.13%), and meninges (10.75%), which is in line with the results of these previous studies. In our study, intestinal TB represented a higher proportion of EPTB cases than in the previous studies. Intestinal TB is caused by the invasion of the intestinal tract by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and usually occurs in young and middle-aged women under 40 years of age. This is consistent with our analysis that identified age (≤ 40) and gender (female) as risk factors for EPTB.

A number of studies have reported that young people [10, 18] and females are high-risk populations for EPTB [11, 19, 20]. In our study, we also found that young women are a high-risk population for PTB combined with EPTB. The proportion of PTB cases complicated with EPTB infection was significantly higher than that of PTB alone for both females (36.50% vs. 30.59%; P = 0.034) and patients of age ≤ 40 (47.15% vs. 30.40%; P < 0.001). Our multivariate analysis also found that malnutrition (OR [95% CI] = 2.029 [1.097–3.753]; P = 0.024), anemia (OR [95% CI] = 1.739 [1.127–2.683]; P = 0.012), and osteoporosis (OR [95% CI] = 4.147 [1.577–10.905]; P = 0.004) were also risk factors for PTB with EPTB infection. By contrast, bronchiectasis (OR [95% CI] = 0.326 [0.117–0.910]; P = 0.032) reduced the risk of PTB complicated with EPTB. This suggests that malnutrition, anemia, and osteoporosis caused by systemic nutritional deficiency are important factors in the occurrence of PTB with EPTB infection. Anemia and malnutrition are common underlying diseases of tuberculosis [21,22,23] and are associated with complications in children with EPTB [24]. Our study also showed that the incidence of anemia and malnutrition in PTB with EPTB patients was higher than that in PTB without EPTB patients. We also showed, for the first time, that osteoporosis is an independent risk factor for PTB with EPTB. We speculate that this association may be related to the following aspects: (1) the use of corticosteroids. In China, patients with PTB with EPTB are likely to use corticosteroids frequently since the medical consensus on the treatment of TB recommends the use of hormones, when necessary, for meningitis TB, pericarditis TB, peritonitis TB, and acute hematogenous disseminated PTB. This may lead to the extensive use of hormones in patients with PTB complicated with EPTB and result in osteoporosis in these patients [25]; (2) direct infiltration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis into the bone tissue and a reduction in bone strength. For example, bone nodule complication of TB results in destruction of the soft tissue around the bone, when Mycobacterium tuberculosis invades the skeletal system, weakening the maintenance of bone tissue [26]; (3) vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency has been confirmed to be an independent risk factor for EPTB [27, 28]. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to the occurrence and deterioration of osteoporosis; (4) malnutrition. Our study found that malnutrition is a risk factor for PTB with EPTB, and malnutrition can lead to the development of osteoporosis [29]. Bronchiectasis and diabetes appear to protect against the development of EPTB following PTB [10, 30,31,32,33]. Our data also confirms that EPTB is more likely to occur without diabetes. The lower incidence of EPTB development in patients with diabetes may be related to the following aspects: (1) age. In this study, it was shown that the proportion of patients who developed EPTB following PTB was significantly increased for patients younger than 40 years of age. By contrast, older people have an increased risk of developing diabetes [34]. In other words, diabetic patients are much more likely to be of an age that makes them statistically less likely to develop EPTB; (2) hyperglycemia, which can change the permeability of pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, induce the production of vascular inflammatory factors, promote remodeling of pulmonary vessels, and increase pulmonary hypertension. These consequences of hyperglycemia can result in a decline in respiratory function and in damage to lung defense mechanisms. Thus, diabetic patients are more vulnerable to respiratory diseases, particularly lower respiratory tract infections by atypical pathogens that are associated with more severe attacks of pneumonia [35,36,37]; (3) impaired immune response. Patients with diabetes are more likely to have an impaired immune response, which promotes the primary TB infection or reactivation of latent TB [38].

We observed that patients with PTB with EPTB had complications outside the lungs, including extrathoracic effusion, intestinal infection, urinary tract infection, and abdominal infection. Therefore, PTB combined with EPTB is more harmful to patients.

Tuberculosis is a high-burden disease, and studies from the United States show that the total cost of hospitalization is $16,695 per TB case. Indeed, the total TB-related hospitalization costs in the United States, in 2014, were estimated at $123.4 million [39]. Our in-depth research on the burden of disease, in China, found that the duration of hospitalization of PTB with EPTB patients was significantly prolonged (19 days vs. 14 days), and the total cost, laboratory testing cost, imaging examination cost, and drug use cost of PTB with EPTB patients during hospitalization were also significantly higher. This is consistent with other report, which showed that EPTB and combined PTB are associated with longer hospital stays (11.27 vs. 8.56 days) and higher financial burden rates (17.67% vs. 13.30%) than PTB alone [40].

In summary, PTB with EPTB is more harmful than PTB alone; however, the diverse clinical manifestations of EPTB infection make its diagnosis more difficult. Consequently, the identification of robust risk factors associated with EPTB would allow patients with PTB to be screened to facilitate diagnosis, monitoring, and management of individuals at higher risk of developing EPTB. In turn, this should reduce the hospitalization time of patients and reduce the financial burden of the disease.

This study also has the following limitations: (1) this is a retrospective study in which the data analyzed were from patients presenting at a single center. Since our hospital is a designated hospital for tuberculosis, with a high proportion of critically ill patients, there may be some selection bias, and the sample may not be widely representative; (2) for this study, we selected only those PTB patients who returned a positive bacterial culture. Consequently, the characteristics of patients with a clinical diagnosis of PTB or PTB with EPTB, but who did not give a positive culture result, were not included. This may also have introduced some bias.

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Case selection process

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Conclusion

In summary, we found important risk factors for PTB complicated with EPTB, such as age ≤ 40, malnutrition, anemia, and osteoporosis. PTB with EPTB patients have more extrapulmonary complications and higher hospitalization disease burden. The clinical characteristics, epidemiological characteristics, risk factors, complications, and disease burden of this patient cohort provide important reference data for the diagnosis and treatment of PTB complicated with EPTB.

Data Availability

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully thank the Affiliated Hangzhou Chest Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine for providing raw data.

Funding

This work was supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ21H190001); Medical Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (No.2020KY735); Hangzhou Medical and Health Science and Technology Project (A20210054); Hangzhou Chest Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University Medical College and Zhejiang University Medical College Joint pre-research project (ZAYY2).

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  1. Tianshui Niu and Fei He contributed equally.

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  1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Center, Affiliated Hangzhou Chest Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Tianshui Niu, Fei He, Chengxi Ma, Jingyi Xu, Tianzhi Sun, Xin Zhang, Shuyi Chen & Chuhui Ru

  2. Shanghai Research Center for Thyroid Diseases, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Jianshe Yang

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Tianshui Niu conducted the correlation analysis and prepared the initial drafts of the manuscript. Fei He, Jianshe Yang and Chengxi Ma collected the case information of pathogen-positive patients. Jingyi Xu, Tianzhi Sun, Xin Zhang, Shuyi Chen contributed in statistical analysis. Chuhui Ru as a principal investigator designed the study, collected the data and revised the manuscript.

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This study complied with the declaration of Helsinki and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations of the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hangzhou Chest Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine(Approved Number:2021 − 232). This study used data collected from patient records while maintaining patient anonymity. Because this study presented no more than minimal risk of harm to patient subjects, the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hangzhou Chest Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine approved a waiver of patient informed consent.

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Niu, T., He, F., Yang, J. et al. The epidemiological characteristics and infection risk factors for extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis infection in China from 2017 to 2021. BMC Infect Dis 23, 488 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08410-w

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