Volume 30, Number 11—November 2024
Synopsis
Mortality Rates after Tuberculosis Treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008–2019
Sarah Gorvetzian1, Antonio G. Pacheco, Erin Anderson, Susan M. Ray, and Marcos C. Schechter
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.
1Current affiliation: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
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