Résumé
Objective To explore the risk factors of elderly people with pulmonary TB,and to provide the scientific evidence of prevention and interventions for tuberculosis among the old people in Nanchang City.Methods 1∶1 case control study was performed .A total of 390 pulmonary TB patients over 60 years old were selected as case group.One healthy person with the same gender and within 2 year age difference was selected to match each case.Interviews were carried out with a uniformly designed questionnaire.Logistic regression models were used for analysis.Results A total of 120 smear positive tuberculosis patients and 270 smear negative tuberculosis patients were investigated.And 72.82% male and 27.18% female of the 390 TB patients were investigated.Average age of patients was 70.34 ±7.75.Multivariate condition logistic regression analysis showed smoking(OR =2.359,95%CI:1.368 -4.068),contacting tuberculosis(OR =3.357,95%CI:1.854 -6.075),BMI 18.5 -24.9(OR =0.175,95%CI:0.056 -0.546),education (OR =0.110,95%CI:0.036 -0.332),annual average income (OR =0.475,95%CI:0.332 -0.681),per capita living space(OR =0.946,95%CI:0.920 -0.973)and drinking tea (OR =0.398,95%CI:0.268 -0.592)were the influencing factors(P <0.05).Conclusion Health education should be promoted auording to the risk factors,and patients manage ment should be streng thened.