1. The frequency of risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in tuberculosis patients in Babol, Northern Iran, during 2008-2015
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Arefeh Babazadeh, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Mehran Shokri, Rahmatollah Najafi, Masomeh Bayani, Zahra Geraili Afra, Mostafa Javanian, and Jalal Niromand
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0301 basic medicine ,Pharmacology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tuberculosis ,business.industry ,030106 microbiology ,Pharmacology toxicology ,tuberculosis risk factors ,Pharmacy ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Biochemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pulmonary tuberculosis ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,epidemiology ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,iran ,Molecular Biology ,pulmonary tuberculosis - Abstract
In the current study, we investigated the risk factors for tuberculosis in patients admitted to the Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol, north of Iran. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 207 patients with proven tuberculosis during the years 2008-2015. Demographic data such as age and sex, smoking, history of underlying illness, illness symptoms, and laboratory results were collected and analyzed at a significant level of less than 0.05. From 207 patients, 136 were male (65.7%), 71 were female (34.3%), and 76 of them (37.3%) were smokers. It is notable that most patients (29.5%) were over the age of 71. The relation between age profile and being tuberculosis has been studied, but the co-relation was found to be not significant. The most common complaint has been coughing (60.9%). While investigating underling diseases, the most common illness has found to be Diabetes (11.3%). Based our finding, there was a significant relationship between gender and smoking with tuberculosis. Accordingly, as smoking is one of the risk factors for tuberculosis, smokers and non-smokers should be informed that smoking carries the risk for tuberculosis. Such a program should be particularly addressed to males.
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- 2018