The association between chronic kidney disease and tuberculosis; a comparative cohort study in England

BMC Nephrology

Table 3 Association of chronic kidney disease with incident tuberculosis by ethnic group

Group	Number of patients	Tuberculosis cases/PY^a	Adjusted rate ratio^c (95%CI)	P-value^b	Test for interaction p-value
White/not recorded^d	466,350	210/1970832.9	1.35 (1.02–1.78)	0.036	0.061
Non-White	10,862	36/44096.337	2.83 (1.32–6.03)	0.007	0.061

CKD chronic kidney disease stages 3–5. PY person years
^atotal follow up time
^bp-value: from Wald test
^cfor age, gender, socio-economic status, COPD and diabetes
^dwhite/not recorded: 136119(56.2%) and 140,784 (58.1%) patients with and without CKD, respectively, had missing ethnicity

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