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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 5

Mortality rates and standardized mortality ratios for posttreatment groups compared with the general Georgia population in study of mortality rates after TB treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008–2019*

Groups
 Mortality rate (95% CI)
 Standardized mortality ratio (95% CI)
Overall TB cohort†
Crude mortality rate 12.69 (11.12–14.43) Referent
Mortality rate adjusted for age and sex 9.77 (8.29–11.43) 0.91 (0.75–1.07)
Mortality rate adjusted for age only
 10.50 (9.09–12.07)
 0.98 (0.84–1.12)
Culture confirmed and treatment completed‡
Crude mortality rate 14.19 (12.20–16.41) Referent
Mortality rate adjusted for age and sex
 10.92 (9.08–13.03)
 1.02 (0.84–1.20)
Non-Hispanic White and Black persons§
Crude mortality rate 22.84 (19.79–26.23) Referent
Mortality rate adjusted for age and race
 19.73 (15.64–24.56)
 1.82 (1.60–2.04)¶
US-born persons only#
Crude mortality rate 22.51(19.50–25.84) Referent
Mortality rate adjusted for age and sex 16.93 (14.10–20.15) 1.58 (1.41–1.76)

*All rates are per 1,000 person-years. Georgia population had 900,874 deaths; person-time = 90,796,252 person-years. SMR, standardized mortality ratio; TB, tuberculosis. †Number of patients in TB cohort was 3,182. Overall TB cohort follow-up time was 18,426 person-years (no. deaths = 233). ‡Total number was 2,248. Culture-confirmed TB follow-up time was 12,820 person-years (no. deaths = 182). §Total number was 1,899. Follow-up time was 10,797 person-years (no. deaths = 201). ¶Compared with non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black persons in Georgia. #Total number was 1,557. Follow-up time was 8,929 person-years (no. deaths = 201).

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

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