Table 2 Sociodemographic and clinical variables of the PTB cases in the low-, intermediate- and high-incidence regions of the state
From: Genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in San Luis Potosí, México
Variable | Incidence region* | P† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Low (6.2) | Intermediate (17.3) | High (33.4) | Overall (12.6) | ||
Number of PTB cases | 63 | 83 | 102 | 248 | --- |
Sex | |||||
Male | 40 (63.5) ‡ | 47 (56.6) | 68 (66.7) | 155 (62.5) | 0.670 |
Female | 23 (36.5) | 36 (43.4) | 34 (33.3) | 93 (37.5) | 0.861 |
Median age | |||||
Years (range) | 45 (18–86) | 48 (15–80) | 55 (16–95) | 50 (15–95) | 0.031 |
Occupation | |||||
Farm worker | 15 (23.8) | 25 (30.1) | 43 (42.2) | 83 (33.5) | 0.116 |
Housewife | 18 (28.6) | 31 (37.3) | 28 (27.5) | 77 (31.0) | 0.449 |
Unemployed | 11 (17.5) | 12 (14.5) | 19 (18.6) | 42 (16.9) | 0.779 |
Employee | 12 (19.0) | 4 (4.8) | 3 (2.9) | 19 (7.7) | 0.001 |
Independent | 5 (7.9) | 8 (9.6) | 7 (6.9) | 20 (8.1) | 0.819 |
Another | 2 (3.2) | 3 (3.6) | 2 (2.0) | 7 (2.8) | 0.779 |
Formal education | |||||
None | 13 (20.6) | 21 (25.3) | 36 (35.3) | 70 (28.2) | 0.522 |
Incomplete primary | 21 (33.3) | 29 (34.9) | 33 (32.4) | 83 (33.5) | 0.638 |
Primary | 16 (25.4) | 21 (25.3) | 20 (19.6) | 57 (23.0) | 0.951 |
Secondary | 11 (17.5) | 12 (14.5) | 11 (10.8) | 34 (13.7) | 0.192 |
College | 2 (3.2) | 0 (0) | 2 (2.0) | 4 (1.6) | 0.301 |
Habitat | |||||
Rural | 11 (17.5) | 45 (54.2) | 88 (86.3) | 144 (58.1) | < 0.001 |
Urban | 52 (82.5) | 38 (45.8) | 14 (13.7) | 104 (41.9) | < 0.001 |
Marginalization index | |||||
Very high | 0 (0) | 9 (10.8) | 0 (0) | 9 (3.6) | < 0.001 |
High | 12 (19) | 18 (21.7) | 102 (100.0) | 132 (53.2) | < 0.001 |
Medium | 2 (3.2) | 33 (39.8) | 0 (0) | 35 (14.1) | < 0.001 |
Low | 1 (1.6) | 23 (27.7) | 0 (0) | 24 (9.7) | < 0.001 |
Very low | 48 (76.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 48 (19.4) | < 0.001 |
Previous history of TB | |||||
No | 59 (93.7) | 75 (90.4) | 90 (88.2) | 224 (90.3) | 0.951 |
Yes | 4 (6.3) | 8 (9.6) | 12 (11.8) | 24 (9.7) | 0.549 |
Contact with TB cases | |||||
Yes | 8 (12.7) | 24 (28.9) | 29 (28.4) | 61 (24.6) | 0.086 |
No | 55 (87.3) | 59 (71.1) | 73 (28.4) | 187 (75.4) | 0.449 |
Concomitant disease | |||||
None | 34 (54.0) | 37 (44.6) | 50 (49.0) | 121 (48.8) | 0.741 |
Diabetes | 20 (31.7) | 19 (22.9) | 14 (13.7) | 53 (21.4) | 0.047 |
Malnutrition | 4 (6.3) | 15 (18.1) | 22 (21.6) | 41 (16.5) | 0.061 |
Alcoholism | 1 (1.6) | 7 (8.4) | 15 (14.7) | 23 (9.3) | 0.026 |
HIV-AIDS | 4 (6.3) | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0) | 5 (2.0) | 0.017 |
Other | 0 (0) | 4 (4.8) | 1 (1.0) | 5 (2.0) | 0.082 |
Acid-fast bacilli smear | |||||
Positive | 56 (88.9) | 78 (94.0) | 100 (98.0) | 234 (94.4) | 0.016 |
Negative | 7 (11.1) | 5 (6.0) | 2 (2.0) | 14 (5.6) | 0.584 |