An evaluation of factors associated with taking and responding positive to the tuberculin skin test in individuals with HIV/AIDS

Table 1 Distribution of biological and socio-economic characteristics of people living with HIV by adherence to TST and TST reactivity, Recife 2007-2010.

VARIABLES	WITH TST		WITHOUT TST		Chi²	Pr	TST ≥ 5 mm		TST = 0-4 mm		Chi²	Pr
	n	%	n	%			n	%	n	%
Biological variables
Sex					12.2	< 0.001					0.1	0.747
Female	451	41.5	414	34.4			90	40.5	361	41.7
Male	636	58.5	789	65.6			132	59.5	504	58.3
Age					19.7	< 0.001					0.0	0.905
40 years or over	569	52.3	518	43.1			117	52.7	452	52.3
Up to 39 years	518	47.7	685	56.9			105	47.3	413	47.7
Socio-demographic variables
Place of Residence					18.9	< 0.001					4.3	0.114
Recife	496	45.8	516	43.4			89	40.1	407	47.3
Metropolitan Region	462	42.7	460	38.7			108	48.6	354	41.2
Interior	124	11.5	213	17.9			25	11.3	99	11.5
Years of schooling					10.4	0.001					6.2	0.013
≥ 10 years	487	44.8	459	38.2			83	37.4	404	46.7
Up to 9 years	600	55.2	744	61.8			139	62.6	461	53.3
Hospital attended					17.4	< 0.001					13.0	< 0.001
HUOC*	474	43.6	422	35.1			73	32.9	401	46.4
HCP*	613	56.4	781	64.9			149	67.1	464	53.6

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