A case control study on risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis among elderly people in Nanchang City
- VernacularTitle:南昌市老年人群肺结核患病危险因素病例对照研究
- Author:
Shui-Gui LIU
1
;
Yong XIAO
;
Su-Ping JI
Author Information
1. 南昌三三四医院预防保健科
- Keywords:
Tuberculosis;
Risk factors;
Matched case control study;
Elderly people
- From:
Journal of Preventive Medicine
2016;28(12):1197-1199,1204
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the risk factors of elderly people with pulmonary TB,and to provide the scientific evidence of prevention and interventions for tuberculosis among the old people in Nanchang City.Methods 1∶1 case control study was performed .A total of 390 pulmonary TB patients over 60 years old were selected as case group.One healthy person with the same gender and within 2 year age difference was selected to match each case.Interviews were carried out with a uniformly designed questionnaire.Logistic regression models were used for analysis.Results A total of 120 smear positive tuberculosis patients and 270 smear negative tuberculosis patients were investigated.And 72.82% male and 27.18% female of the 390 TB patients were investigated.Average age of patients was 70.34 ±7.75.Multivariate condition logistic regression analysis showed smoking(OR =2.359,95%CI:1.368 -4.068),contacting tuberculosis(OR =3.357,95%CI:1.854 -6.075),BMI 18.5 -24.9(OR =0.175,95%CI:0.056 -0.546),education (OR =0.110,95%CI:0.036 -0.332),annual average income (OR =0.475,95%CI:0.332 -0.681),per capita living space(OR =0.946,95%CI:0.920 -0.973)and drinking tea (OR =0.398,95%CI:0.268 -0.592)were the influencing factors(P <0.05).Conclusion Health education should be promoted auording to the risk factors,and patients manage ment should be streng thened.
