Population aging and trends of pulmonary tuberculosis incidence in the elderly

BackgroundTo explore population aging and the epidemic trend of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in the elderly, and provide a basis for the prevention and control of pulmonary tuberculosis among the elderly.MethodsWe collected clinical information of 239,707 newly active PTB patients in Shandong Provin...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC infectious diseases 2021-03, Vol.21 (1), p.302-302, Article 302
Hauptverfasser:	Li, Shi-jin, Li, Yi-Fan, Song, Wan-mei, Zhang, Qian-yun, Liu, Si-qi, Xu, Ting-ting, An, Qi-qi, Liu, Jin-yue, Li, Huai-chen
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age groups Aged Aged patients Aging Care and treatment China - epidemiology Diagnosis Epidemics Female Geriatrics HIV Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Incidence Infectious Diseases Join-point regression model Life Sciences & Biomedicine Male Medical laboratories Medicine, Preventive Middle Aged Model testing Older people Patients Planning Population Prevention Preventive health services Pulmonary tuberculosis Quality control Regression models Rural Population Rural populations Science & Technology Trends Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Urban Population
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Zusammenfassung:	BackgroundTo explore population aging and the epidemic trend of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in the elderly, and provide a basis for the prevention and control of pulmonary tuberculosis among the elderly.MethodsWe collected clinical information of 239,707 newly active PTB patients in Shandong Province from 2005 to 2017. We analyzed and compared the clinical characteristics, reported incidence and temporal trend of PTB among the elderly group (>= 60years) and the non-elderly group (
ISSN:	1471-2334 1471-2334
DOI:	10.1186/s12879-021-05994-z