Epidemiological Aspects of Tuberculosis in Tehran: Findings of a Period of 9 Years

This study was conducted to assess the epidemiological aspects and trend of Tuberculosis in Tehran Province during a nine-year period.

In this study all registered TB patient from 2005 - 2013 were evaluated. To assess the relationshipbetween qualitative variables, chi-square test was used. The incidence rate of TB was calculated during theyears of study. Trend the frequency of cases were reported as a line chart. All statistical analyses were performedat a significance level of 0.05 using Stata software, version 11 (Stata Corp, College Station, TX, USA).

In this study 11446 TB patients were evaluated. About 45% of patients were female, 52.69% were Iranians, 84.86% were in urban residents, and 13.93% were new cases. A total of 49% of patients were co-infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Proportion of sex, age, place of residence,history of contact with patients, hospitalization for TB, and kind of disease (