Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS AnR0xrIA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background. To investigate the extent to which smoking and/or drinking can increase the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), a population-based case-control study was conducted in rural south India. Methods. A total of 1839 males and 870 females treated in 2000-03 by state TB clinics were interviewed at home in 2004-05 about their education, smoking and drinking habits before disease onset. As controls, 2134 men and 2119 women without TB were randomly chosen from case villages and interviewed. Incidence rate ratios (RRs) are from logistic regression, adjusted for age and education. Results. No women smoked or drank. The main analyses are of men aged 35-64 years, 949 cases treated for new pulmonary TB and 1963 controls. In the study, 81.5% of the cases and 55.2% of the controls had ever smoked, yielding a standardized ever-vs never-smoker TB incidence RR of 2.7 [95% confidence interval (CI) 2.2-3.3, P
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