부산대학교 도서관

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. Keywords: Time to death, Tuberculosis, Risk factors, Ethiopia
Author(s): Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom[sup.1] , Daniel Tesfaye[sup.1] , Yirga Legesse Nirayo[sup.1] and Tesfay Mehari Atey[sup.1] Introduction Worldwide, mortality and incidence rates due to tuberculosis (TB) and new incidences of TB [...]