ArticleEClinicalMedicine2021
Post-tuberculosis airway disease: A population-based cohort study of people immigrating to British Columbia, Canada, 1985-2015.
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent epidemiological evidence of post-TB airway disease is largely cross-sectional and derived from high-TB-incidence settings. We present the first cohort study of post-TB airway disease in a low-TB-incidence setting.
aims(1) analyze the risk of airway disease by respiratory TB, (2) assess potential unmeasured confounding between TB and airway disease, and (3) investigate TB effect measure modification.
methodsA population-based cohort study using healthcare claims data for immigrants to British Columbia (BC), Canada, 1985-2015. Airway disease included chronic airway obstruction, asthma, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and emphysema. Respiratory TB was defined from TB registry data. Cox proportional hazards (PH) regressions were used to analyze time-to-airway disease by respiratory TB. Sensitivity analyses included varying definitions of TB and airway disease. Potential unmeasured confounding by smoking was evaluated by E-value and hybrid least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO)-high-dimensional propensity score (hdPS).
findingsIn our cohort (
interpretationA twofold higher risk of airway disease was observed among immigrants diagnosed with respiratory TB, compared with non-TB controls, in a low-TB-incidence setting. Unmeasured confounding is unlikely to explain this relationship. Models of post-TB care are needed.
fundingCanadian Institutes of Health Research.
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