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Table 1 Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of the Study Population

From: Polymorphisms in IL-1β, vitamin D receptor Fok1, and Toll-like receptor 2 are associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Characteristic

Extrapulmonary TB (n = 24)

Pulmonary TB (n = 24)

PPD+ (n = 57)

P valuea

Age at study entry (years)

48.4

(43.6-79.4)

43.6

(40.3-53.9)

45.7

(38.8-53.3)

0.18

# Male Sex (%)

16 (67)

14 (58)

36 (63)

0.84

# Black Race (%)

18 (75)

19 (79)

49 (86)

0.46

# White Race (%)

4 (17)

4 (17)

8 (14)

0.93

# Asian Race (%)

2 (9)

1 (4)

0 (0)

0.11

BMI at study entry (kg/m2)

25.5

(23.0-29.6)

20.6

(18.2-24.0)

25.9

(22.8-30.5)

< 0.001

CD4 count at study entry

701

(565-1015)

814

(594-938)

879

(703-1114)

0.05

  1. Data are medians (inter-quartile range; IQR) except as noted.
  2. a Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables; Chi-square test for categorical variables.