Tuberculosis is a major disease worldwide and most research focus on risk factors for adults, although there is a marked adolescent peak in incidence. The objective of this study was to identify risk factors for tuberculosis in children aged 7 to 19.A case control study matched by age with 169 cases and 477 controls. The study population consisted of adolescents and older children from Recife, Brazil. Cases were individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis in the control programme and controls were selected in the neighborhood of cases. Conditional logistic regression was used to identify risk factors.Cigarette smoking increased by 50

作者：Hilary, Stevens；Ricardo Aa, Ximenes；Odimariles Ms, Dantas；Laura C, Rodrigues

来源：Emerging themes in epidemiology 2014 年 11卷 1期