Incidence of tuberculosis with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot

ABSTRACT

To study the incidence of tuberculosis in patients with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot. Original study. This study was conducted at Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2010 to 30[th] April 2013. 500 cases of tuberculosis were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and their peripheral districts. Results are shown in Table No. 1 to Table No. 5. The maximum incidence of tuberculoses was in age group [31-40 years] and 23.4%. The incidence of tuberculoses was in age group 71-80 years [08%] which was minimum with relation to age group as shown in Table No. 1. There was more incidence of tuberculosis [55.4%] in women as compared to men [44.6%] because men have more resistance against tuberculosis as compared to women as shown in Table No. 2. As shown in Table No. 3 the victims of tuberculosis were maximum in laborer [23%] and factory workers [22.2%] and minimum incidence of tuberculosis was found [1.6%] in house wives as compared to other groups of people. There was maximum incidence of tuberculosis in low socio economic group of people [65.4%] in middle class of people and 2.8% in high gentry as shown in Table No. 4. Which was minimum as compared to other groups of people. As shown in Table No. 5 there was 42.6% incidence of tuberculosis as compared to rural area 57.4%