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Table 3 Baseline characteristics of final 1354 subjects

From: Pretreatment chest x-ray severity and its relation to bacterial burden in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis

Baseline characteristic

N (%)

Median

IQR (1st, 3rd quartile)

Age (years)

 

31.6

24.1, 41.9

Sex

 Male

959 (70.8%)

  

 Female

395 (29.2%)

Ethnicity

 African

924 (68.2%)

  

 Asian

430 (31.8%)

Diabetes

 Yes

69 (5%)

  

 No

1285 (95%)

HIV

 Yes

104 (7.7%)

  

 No

1250 (92.3%)

Albumin (g/L)

 

34

30, 38

Body mass index (kg/m2)

 

18.5

16.9, 20.3

Grade 3+ tuberculosis symptoms

   

 0

1271 (93.9%)

  

 1

60 (4.4%)

 2

16 (1.2%)

 3

7 (0.5%)

 4

1 (0.07%)

Time to positivity (hours)

 

117

89, 153

Cavity

   

Yes

1049 (77.5%)

No

305 (22.5%)

Average area affected (%)

 

18.13

11.25, 27.5