Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Research
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence, Arkansas, USA, 2010–2021
Maheen Humayun, Leonard Mukasa, Wen Ye, Joseph H. Bates, and Zhenhua Yang
Table 6
Disparities in advanced TB disease at diagnosis by race/ethnicity, sex, and age, Arkansas, USA, 2010–2021*
| Covariate | RR (95% CI) for sputum smear-positive PTB |
RR (95% CI) for EPTB |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Age- and sex-adjusted | Unadjusted | Age- and sex-adjusted | ||
| Race/ethnicity† | |||||
| Hispanic | 3.42 (2.39–4.90) | 5.54 (3.84–8.00) | 3.61 (2.31–5.66) | 5.26 (3.32–8.34) | |
| Asian | 11.07 (7.28–16.82) | 14.43 (9.46–22.02) | 25.97 (17.59–38.35) | 31.37 (21.09–46.66) | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 3.80 (2.90–4.99) | 4.80 (3.65–6.31) | 3.68 (2.59–5.22) | 4.46 (3.13–6.34) | |
| NHPI | 78.73 (54.40–113.94) | 138.84 (94.65–203.67) | 89.90 (57.41–140.78) | 133.32 (83.68–212.41) | |
| Non-Hispanic White |
Referent |
Referent |
Referent |
Referent |
|
| Sex‡ | |||||
| M | 2.27 (1.79–2.87) | 2.40 (1.89–3.05) | 1.43 (1.09–1.87) | 1.49 (1.14–1.95) | |
| F |
Referent |
Referent |
Referent |
Referent |
|
| Age group§ | |||||
| 0–14 y | NA¶ | NA | 0.20 (0.11–0.36) | 0.10 (0.05–0.18) | |
| 15–24 y | 0.42 (0.27–0.64) | 0.22 (0.14–0.34) | 0.37 (0.22–0.64) | 0.20 (0.11–0.35) | |
| 25–44 y | 0.73 (0.54–0.99) | 0.37 (0.27–0.51) | 0.93 (0.66–1.31) | 0.48 (0.33–0.69) | |
| 45–64 y | 1.04 (0.78–1.38) | 0.75 (0.56–1.00) | 0.66 (0.45–0.96) | 0.48 (0.33–0.71) | |
| >65 y | Referent | Referent | Referent | Referent | |
*Estimates used Poisson regression, EPTB includes cases concurrently diagnosed with PTB. EPTB, extrapulmonary tuberculosis; NA, not available; NHPI, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; PTB, pulmonary tuberculosis; RR, risk ratio; TB, tuberculosis. †Using unadjusted RR model 1. ‡Using unadjusted RR model 2. §Using unadjusted RR model 3. ¶Not available due to small sample size.
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