Time to death and risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Northern Ethiopia

Atey, Tesfay

Time to death and risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Northern Ethiopia

Posted on 2018-10-04 - 05:00

Abstract Objective The main objective of this study was to assess time to death and associated risk factors among tuberculosis (TB) patients. Results A total of 769 TB patients were studied and of those, 87 (11.3%) patients died. All of the deaths occurred within 7 months of anti-tuberculosis therapy. Extra-pulmonary TB (AHR = 17.376, 95% CI; 3.88–77.86, p < 0.001) as compared to pulmonary TB and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis therapy (CPT) (AHR = 0.15, 95% CI; 0.03–0.74, p = 0.02) were found to be the predictors of mortality. We noticed higher rates of mortality. Extra-pulmonary TB patients have high risk and TB-HIV co-infected patients who received CPT have low risk of death. Improving early diagnosis of extra-pulmonary TB and early CPT initiation of TB-HIV co-infected patients could minimize patient’s mortality.

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Asgedom, Solomon; Tesfaye, Daniel; Nirayo, Yirga; Atey, Tesfay (2018). Time to death and risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Northern Ethiopia. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4255571.v1

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