title: [The social profile and medical characteristics of a first-time registered patient with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs].
abstract: Documentation concerning 307 patients with newly discovered respiratory tuberculosis during 1979-1988 was analysed. The mean age of the patients was 40. Respiratory tuberculosis morbidity among adult men was 5.3 times higher than that among women. More benign forms of the disease were revealed in the latter, which insured 100% cure among them. Half the male patients were smear-positive; 3/4, were alcohol abusers; and 1/3 were kept in reformatory institutions before the onset of the disease. Every second of them was single, thus prone to an unhealthy lifestyle and improper nutrition. 4/5 of the tuberculosis-affected men were heavy tobacco smokers with concomitant chronic bronchitis, and the death of 2% of this number was caused by concurrent lung cancer. The follow-up of 248 men from 1 month to 10 years showed that tuberculosis and other causes, including cancer, underlying diseases and fatal injuries, led to the death of 1 (0.4%) and 9.7% of the patients, respectively.
authors.forename: I G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Ursov
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Leonov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009031:Moscow / Q000453:epidemiology; D012924:Social Conditions; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Sotsial'noe litso i meditsinskaia kharakteristika vpervye registriruemogo bol'nogo tuberkulezom organov dykhaniia.