IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 12827: Factors Associated with Unfavourable Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Tuberculosis: A 16-Year Cohort Study (2005 & ndash;2020), Republic of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 12827: Factors Associated with Unfavourable Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Tuberculosis: A 16-Year Cohort Study (2005–2020), Republic of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph182312827 Authors: Jamshid Gadoev Damin Asadov Anthony D. Harries Ajay M. V. Kumar Martin Johan Boeree Araksya Hovhannesyan Lianne Kuppens Askar Yedilbayev Oleksander Korotych Atadjan Hamraev Kallibek Kudaybergenov Barno Abdusamatova Bakhtinur Khudanov Masoud Dara Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health burden in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. This region-wide retrospective cohort study reports the treatment outcomes of patients registered in the TB electronic register and treated with first-line drugs in the TB Programme of the Republic of Karakalpakstan from 2005–2020 and factors associated with unfavourable outcomes. Among 35,122 registered patients, 24,394 (69%) patients were adults, 2339 (7%) were children, 18,032 (51%) were male and 19,774 (68%) lived in rural areas. Of these patients, 29,130 (83%) had pulmonary TB and 7497 (>22%) had been previously treated. There were 7440 (21%) patients who had unfavourable treatment outcomes. Factors associated with unfavourable treatment outcomes included: increasing age, living in certain parts of the republic, disability, pensioner status, unemployment, being HIV-positive, ha...
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