Effect of smoking on treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Malaysia; a multicenter study.

Amer Hayat KhanSyed Azhar Syed SulaimanMohamed Azmi HassaliKashif Ullah KhanLong Chiau MingOmer MateenMalik Obaid Ullah

Published in: BMC public health (2020)

Smoking has a strong influence on TB and is a major barrier towards treatment success (OR = 0.76, 95% CI 0.69-0.84, p < 0.001). Therefore, the findings indicate that smoking cessations are an effective way to decrease treatment failure and drug resistance.

Keyphrases

smoking cessation
end stage renal disease
mycobacterium tuberculosis
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
emergency department
pulmonary tuberculosis
hiv infected