ArticleBMC infectious diseases2014
Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study.
Article in BMC infectious diseases, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- State variation in neighborhood COVID-19 burden across the United States.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- Association of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures with Tuberculosis Incidence in California.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the accessibility and its equity of the national public-private mix program for tuberculosis in Korea: a multilevel analysis.Epidemiology and health · 2023Article
- Making the invisible visible: the current face of tuberculosis in Detroit, Michigan, USA.Cities & health · 2022Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of Follow-Up of Chronic Coughers in Detecting Smear-Positive Tuberculosis in South Ethiopia.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2021Article
- Understanding the intersection of race and place: the case of tuberculosis in Michigan.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Social patterning of acute respiratory illnesses in the Household Influenza Vaccine Evaluation (HIVE) Study 2014-2015.Epidemiology and infection · 2019Article
- Space-time clustering and associated risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis in southwest China.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2018Article
- Contemporary Social Disparities in TB Infection and Disease in the USA: a Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2018Article
- Race and nativity are major determinants of tuberculosis in the U.S.: evidence of health disparities in tuberculosis incidence in Michigan, 2004-2012.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Individual- and neighborhood-level contextual factors are associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission: genotypic clustering of cases in Michigan, 2004-2012.Annals of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundCurrent understanding of tuberculosis (TB) genotype clustering in the US is based on individual risk factors. This study sought to identify whether area-based socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with genotypic clustering among culture-confirmed TB cases.
methodsA retrospective cohort analysis was performed on data collected on persons with incident TB in King County, Washington, 2004-2008. Multilevel models were used to identify the relationship between area-level SES at the block group level and clustering utilizing a socioeconomic position index (SEP).
resultsOf 519 patients with a known genotyping result and block group, 212 (41%) of isolates clustered genotypically. Analyses suggested an association between lower area-based SES and increased recent TB transmission, particularly among US-born populations. Models in which community characteristics were measured at the block group level demonstrated that lower area-based SEP was positively associated with genotypic clustering after controlling for individual covariates. However, the trend in higher clustering odds with lower SEP index quartile diminished when additional block-group covariates.
conclusionsResults stress the need for TB control interventions that take area-based measures into account, with particular focus on poor neighborhoods. Interventions based on area-based characteristics, such as improving case finding strategies, utilizing location-based screening and addressing social inequalities, could reduce recent rates of transmission.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.