Tuberculosis among migrant workers in Taiwan

Table 4 Comparison of TB incidence among migrant workers and Taiwanese, stratified by age group, 2004 to 2013

	Tuberculosis Cases	Incidence^a	Hazard ratio	P value
≤24 year-old
Taiwanese	8862	12.4	1.00
Migrant workers	457	65.9	5.30 (4.83–5.83)	<.0001
25–34 year-old
Taiwanese	9631	25.2	1.00
Migrant workers	1367	66.4	2.63 (2.49–2.79)	<.0001
35–44 year-old
Taiwanese	12,203	32.7	1.00
Migrant workers	427	45.7	1.40 (1.27–1.54)	<.0001
45–54 year-old
Taiwanese	17,930	49.6	1.00
Migrant workers	32	30.8	0.62 (0.44–0.88)	0.0071

^aAverage Incidence was represented with annual cases per 10⁵ persons in 10 years average
Poisson regression model was applied to test the differences among each group

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