Pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis in a South African population.

S Afr J Physiother · 2016 · PMC6093099 · PMID 30135889

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just short of significancep = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

There was no association between PTB and COPD – those with previous PTB having a reduced FEV 1 :FVC (4.88% less than the norm), which was just short of significance ( p = 0.059).

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approaching significancep = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The variables that remained included age, which reduced FEV1:FVC by 0.26% per year ( p = 0.015); current PTB, which reduced it by 6.44% ( p = 0.017); and previous PTB, which reduced it by 4.88% with a p -value approaching significance ( p = 0.059).

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