Volume 14, Number 10—October 2008
Dispatch
Decreased Tuberculosis Incidence and Declining Clustered Case Rates, Madrid
Jesús Iñigo, Araceli Arce, Elia Palenque, Darío García de Viedma, and Fernando Chaves
Table 1
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients during 2 periods in 3 urban districts of Madrid, Spain
| Characteristic | Years |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997–1999, no. (%), n = 412 | 2002–2004, no. (%), n = 377 | ||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 281(68.2) | 244 (64.7) | |
| Female |
131 (31.8) |
133 (35.3) |
0.33 |
| Age group, y* | |||
| <35 | 178 (43.2) | 159 (42.2) | |
| 35–64 | 151 (36.7) | 133 (35.3) | |
| >65 |
78 (18.9) |
84 (22.3) |
0.55 |
| Foreign-born | |||
| Yes | 22 (5.3) | 128 (34.0) | |
| No |
390 (94.7) |
249 (66.0) |
<0.001 |
| HIV status | |||
| Positive | 106 (25.7) | 46 (12.2) | <0.001 |
| Negative or unknown |
306 (74.3) |
331 (87.8) |
|
| Injection drug use | |||
| Yes | 81(19.7) | 33 (8.8) | <0.001 |
| No or unknown |
331 (80.3) |
344 (91.2) |
|
| Localization of tuberculosis | |||
| Pulmonary | 292 (70.9) | 275 (72.9) | 0.57 |
| Extrapulmonary or unknown | 120 (29.1) | 102 (27.1) | |
*Age unknown for 5 patients in 1997–1999 and 1 patient in 2002–2004.
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