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Table 1 Sample characteristics N = 2098

From: Drug resistant tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia: an analysis of surveillance data 2014–2015

Characteristics

Levels

Mean

SD

Age/year

 

36.6

15.9

  

n

%

Gender

Male

1449

69.1

Female

649

30.9

Occupation

Driver

147

7

Housemaid

246

11.7

Housewife

172

8.2

Handcraft

48

2.3

Student

148

7.1

Unemployed

283

13.5

Prisoner

123

5.9

Other

931

44.4

Nationality

Saudi

879

41.9

Non-Saudi

1219

58.1

Region

Center

557

26.5

West

796

37.9

East

340

16.2

South

290

13.8

North

115

5.5

TB site

Pulmonary

1901

90.6

EPTB

197

9.4

Diabetes

Yes

267

12.7

No

1831

87.3

HIV

Yes

45

2.1

No

2053

97.9

Lung diseases

Yes

54

2.6

No

2044

97.4

Chronic renal failure

Yes

19

0.9

No

2079

99.1

Immunosuppressive

Yes

13

0.6

No

2085

99.4

Previous TB treatment

Yes

143

6.8

No

1955

93.2

  1. SD Standard deviation, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, TB tuberculosis