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. 2017 Jan 1;21(1):86-92.
doi: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0838.

Risks for tuberculosis in Kazakhstan: implications for prevention

A Davis  1 , A Terlikbayeva  2 , A Aifah  1 , S Hermosilla  1 , Z Zhumadilov  3 , E Berikova  4 , S Rakhimova  3 , S Primbetova  2 , M Darisheva  2 , N Schluger  1 , N El-Bassel  1
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Risks for tuberculosis in Kazakhstan: implications for prevention

A Davis et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. .

Abstract

Setting: Four regions in Kazakhstan where participants were recruited from June 2012 to May 2014.

Objective: To examine associations between incarceration history and tobacco, alcohol, and drug consumption, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and diabetes mellitus (DM) with TB.

Design: This matched case-control study included 1600 participants who completed a survey on sociodemographics, history of incarceration, tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and HIV and DM diagnosis. Conditional logistic regression analysis was used to examine associations between a TB diagnosis and risk factors.

Results: Participants who had ever smoked tobacco (aOR 1.73, 95%CI 1.23-2.43, P  0.01), ever drank alcohol (aOR 1.41, 95%CI 1.03-1.93, P  0.05), were HIV-positive (aOR 36.37, 95%CI 2.05-646.13, P  0.05) or had DM (aOR 13.96, 95%CI 6.37-30.56, P  0.01) were more likely to have TB.

Conclusions: The association between TB and tobacco use, alcohol use, HIV and DM in Kazakhstan suggests a need for comprehensive intervention and prevention approaches that also address tobacco and alcohol use, DM and HIV.

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