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The 10-year Trend of TB Rate in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran from 2001 to 2010.

Authors :
Abbas Rahimi Foroushani
Fereshteh Farzianpour
Afshin Tavana
Javad Rasouli
Shayan Hosseini
Source :
Iranian Journal of Public Health, Vol 43, Iss 6 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2014.

Abstract

The present study aimed to explore some risk factors affected the mean of the number of tuberculosis (TB) in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran between 2001 and 2010.Our time series study analyzed the data of 2,560 TB patients as registered with TB Patients Care System in West Azerbaijan Province from early 2001 to 2010. A checklist was prepared for collecting the data and they were then analyzed in SPSS V.16 software.The percentage of male and percentage of female were close to each other (52.2% against 47.8%, respectively). A significant increasing trend of TB rate was found over the years of 2001and 2010 with a pick at 2008 (P

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
22516085 and 22516093
Volume :
43
Issue :
6
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Iranian Journal of Public Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.5b57bc1653d2429b9dc01e98536fcc5c
Document Type :
article