Figure 3
From: Telomere length and outcome of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in a gold mining community
Leukocyte telomere length measured at inclusion among 122 participants with pulmonary tuberculosis, of whom 41 were non-miners (left) and 81 were miners (right); six to nine months later, the patients were evaluated and divided into “cured” and “not crude”. Data are individual values and medians with 25th and 75th percentiles. Among miners, TL length was significantly shorter (**p < 0.01 by Mann Whitney test) among patients not declared cured than among cured patients.
