Table 1 Comparison of clinical laboratory parameters between TB patients and healthy controls.

From: Association of CD14 rs2569190 and rs2569191 polymorphisms with tuberculosis susceptibility in the Kurdish population of Iran

Variables

Subjects

P-value

MDR (n = 23)

Sensitive (n = 280)

Healthy control (n = 288)

Mean age ± SD

57.1 ± 10.4

56.5 ± 11.8

56.5 ± 12.0

0.972

Gender (male/female)

18/5 (78.3/21.7%)

178/102 (63.6/36.4%)

186/102 (64.6/35.4%)

0.367

BMI

19.7 ± 1.5

20.3 ± 2.3

23.2 ± 1.7

< 0.001*

Smoking users (Yes/No)

13/10 (56.5/43.5%)

115/165 (41.1/58.9%)

135/153 (46.9/53.1%)

0.189

25-hydroxy vitamin D, ng/mL (mean ± SD) (Sufficiency: 21–150)

17.4 ± 3.1

24.8 ± 8.6

31.7 ± 11.7

< 0.001*

  1. TB tuberculosis; MDR multi-drug resistance; BMI body mass index; SD standard deviation; *Statistically significant (< 0.05).
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