A study published in BMCCardiovascDisord reports that there is a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among people with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Uganda, of which dyslipidaemia is the most common.
]. We, however, conducted a census of all people with DRTB at the study sites. Data were entered in EpiData 4.4.0 and exported to Stata 16.0 for analysis. Continuous variables were presented as medians with the corresponding interquartile ranges . Categorical data were presented as proportions. The prevalence of CVD risk factors was calculated as the proportion of people with a given risk factor to the total number of people with DRTB.
For all models, we included age, sex, HIV status, residence, BP, blood lipids, HbA1c, alcohol use, smoking, BMI, waist-hip ratio, waist circumference except when the CVD risk factor is measured using one of these variables.We enrolled 212 participants of whom 156 were male and 118 had HIV co-infection. The median age was 37 years . The median BMI was 19.7 Kg/m while the systolic and diastolic BPs were 124.0 mmHg and 85.3 mmHg, respectively. The median RBG was 4.6 mmol/l while the HbA1c was 4.
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