Summary: | Introduction: The universal target under the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) is to reduce the worldwide burden of tuberculosis (TB) 2015, and we wanted to
evaluate development in TB control by assessment of the time trend in incidence and death rate
in Tabriz, Iran. Methods: This was a retrospective trend analysis of the data have been
recorded in East Azerbaijan State TB center during 10 years. Data were related to patients
have been registered for treatment under the directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS)
strategy from 2001 to 2011. Results: In total, 3283 TB patients were treated under DOTS
strategy during 2001-2011. Males constituted 55.0% of subjects. The risk was the highest among
the productive age group (15-44 years). About 61.0% of cases had pulmonary, and 78.0% of
pulmonary TB patients were found to be the sputum smear positive than 46.0% of them were new
sputum smear positive, and 2.0% of them were relapse. On average, for sputum smear positive,
TB cases from 2005 to 2011; the treatment success rate was 87.3%; the cure rate was 80.2%; the
treatment failure rate was 0.5% and death rate was 10.3%. In general, the TB incidence rate
for all TB cases was decreased from 11.9-8.1 a 100000 population and the smear-positive
pulmonary TB incidence rate were decreased from 4.7 to 4.1 a 100000 population in eastern
Azerbaijan province during 2001-2011. Conclusion: In general, we had a decrease in the
incidence rate for all of TB cases. In addition, we had a fall in cure rate and had an
increase in drug side effects rate in this year that can be because of elevated old people
ratio and high death rate by other indirect causes and lack of regular visits and medications
taking according to the treatment protocol.
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