From: Nutritional status of tuberculosis patients, a comparative cross-sectional study
S a | Population profile | Frequency | Percentage | Normal BMI | Underweight | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | Percentage | Frequency | Percentage | |||||
1. | Sex | Male | 1162 | 69.1 | 527 | 31.4 | 633 | 37.8 |
Female | 519 | 30.9 | 193 | 11.3 | 327 | 19.4 | ||
2. | Residence | Urban | 711 | 42.3 | 218 | 13 | 493 | 29.3 |
Rural | 970 | 57.7 | 502 | 29.9 | 468 | 27.8 | ||
3. | Site of infection | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 1297 | 76.8 | 556 | 33.1 | 735 | 43.7 |
Extra-pulmonary TB | 390 | 23.2 | 164 | 9.8 | 226 | 13.4 | ||
4. | HIV status | Positive | 595 | 35.2 | 307 | 18.3 | 285 | 17 |
Negative | 1089 | 64.8 | 339 | 20.2 | 676 | 40.2 | ||
5. | Income in birrb | < 1000 | 1170 | 69.6 | 463 | 27.5 | 707 | 42.1 |
1000–2000 | 316 | 18.8 | 186 | 11.1 | 130 | 7.7 | ||
≥2001 | 195 | 11.6 | 71 | 4.2 | 124 | 7.4 | ||
6. | Occupation | Farmer | 835 | 49.7 | 407 | 24.2 | 428 | 25.5 |
Others | 846 | 50.3 | 313 | 18.6 | 533 | 31.7 | ||
7. | Family size | ≤4 | 648 | 38.5 | 499 | 29.7 | 149 | 8.9 |
> 4 | 1033 | 61.5 | 221 | 13.1 | 812 | 48.3 | ||
8. | Marital status | Single | 694 | 41.3 | 278 | 16.5 | 416 | 24.7 |
Married | 966 | 57.5 | 427 | 25.4 | 539 | 32.1 | ||
Divorced | 18 | 1.1 | 14 | 0.8 | 4 | 0.2 | ||
Widowed | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
9. | Anemia | Present | 1488 | 88.5 | 654 | 38.9 | 834 | 49.6 |
Absent | 193 | 11.5 | 66 | 3.9 | 127 | 7.6 | ||
10. | Age | < 25 | 1350 | 80.3 | 513 | 30.5 | 837 | 49.8 |
≥25 | 331 | 19.7 | 207 | 12.3 | 124 | 7.4 | ||
11. | Intestinal parasitic infection | Ascaris lumbricoides | 409 | 24.3 | 82 | 4.9 | 327 | 19.5 |
Hookworm | 282 | 16.8 | 112 | 6.7 | 170 | 10.1 | ||
Strongloid stercolaris | 75 | 4.5 | 19 | 1.1 | 56 | 3.3 | ||
Others | 127 | 7.6 | 22 | 1.3 | 105 | 6.2 | ||
Not infected | 788 | 46.9 | 485 | 28.9 | 303 | 18 |