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Volume 30, Number 11—November 2024
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Mortality Rates after Tuberculosis Treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008–2019

Sarah Gorvetzian1, Antonio G. Pacheco, Erin Anderson, Susan M. Ray, and Marcos C. SchechterComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Gorvetzian, S.M. Ray, M.C. Schechter); Fundaçāo Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (A.G. Pacheco); Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta (E. Anderson, S.M. Ray, M.C. Schechter)

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Table 4

Comparisons of causes of death between patients who finished TB treatment and the general population in study of mortality rates after TB treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008–2019*

Categories No. (%) persons
Odds ratio (95% CI)† Age at death, y, mean (SD)
Posttreatment deaths Georgia population deaths
Total no. persons 233 900,874 NA 233
Cardiovascular disease 56 (24.0) 271,146 (30.1) 0.73 (0.54–0.99) 67.8 (14.8)
HIV 22 (9.9) 4,789 (0.5) 19.6 (12.6–30.4) 49.6 (11.3)
Malignancy 56 (24.0)‡ 193,983 (21.5) 1.15 (0.85–1.55) 64.5 (12.0)
Pulmonary disease 26 (11.2)§ 90,880 (10.1) 1.11 (0.74–1.68) 68.7 (14.9)
Trauma/poisoning 16 (6.9) 68,550 (7.6) 0.89 (0.53–1.48) 63.3 (14.3)
Other 57 (24.5) 271,526 (30.1) 0.75 (0.55–1.01) 68.0 (14.2)

*NA, not applicable; TB, tuberculosis. †Odds of dying in posttreatment group compared with the general Georgia population. ‡Pulmonary malignancy, n = 21 (37.5% of total malignancies, 9% of total deaths). §Pulmonary TB/mycobacterial infection, n = 7.

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1Current affiliation: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

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