Volume 7, Number 7—June 2001
Research
Tuberculosis in North Carolina: Trends Across Two Decades, 1980-1999
Table 2
Variable | Parameter estimatea | p-value |
---|---|---|
Sex | ||
Female | -0.24 | >0.0001 |
Male | -0.55 | 0.0001 |
Age group | ||
<15 | -0.033 | 0.19 |
15-24 | -0.027 | 0.59 |
25-44 | -0.113 | 0.014 |
45-64 | -0.60 | 0.0001 |
>65 | -1.41 | 0.0001 |
Race | ||
White | -0.21 | 0.0001 |
Black | -1.11 | 0.0001 |
Asian | -0.99 | 0.03 |
Native American | -0.024 | 0.19 |
Ethnicity | ||
Non-Hispanic | -0.47 | 0.0001 |
Hispanic | 3.2 | 0.0001 |
Country of originb | ||
Foreign-born | 1.2 | 0.0084 |
US-born | -0.53 | 0.0011 |
US-born (blacks only) | -1.61 | 0.0033 |
aThis denotes the slope that reflects an increasing (if positive) or decreasing (if negative) trend.
bData from 1993 to 1999.
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