Sociodemographic characteristics of patients with pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

The investigators retrospectively analyzed the demographic, social, and clinical structure of 197 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated at the Novosibirsk Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Ministry of Health, and 50 patients with prostatic tuberculosis and compared the indicators in question. The cohort was established to be considerably heterogeneous; gender differences were found in the pattern of pulmonary tuberculosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis was detected in nearly half (45.7%) of the patients during preventive examinations; bacterial excretion was found in 78.2% of the patients (82.6% of men and 71.1% of women). The patients with prostatic tuberculosis were ascertained to have a higher social well-being than those with pulmonary tuberculosis: the former had higher educational level and they were less prone to practice bad habits.