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

Article scientifique 2018 Anglais

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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, S., Tesfaye, D., Nirayo, Y., Atey, T. (2018). Time to death and risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Northern Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3806-7

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Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom Daniel Tesfaye Yirga Legesse Nirayo Tesfay Mehari Atey

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