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Table 1 Baseline characteristics for patients diagnosed before and after CRP based on UK-born status

From: The NHS visitor and migrant cost recovery programme – a threat to health?

 

Pre-CRP

Post-CRP

UK born

Non-UK born

UK born

Non-UK born

Total cases

166

1037

170

864

Median age (IQR)

32.0 (23–46)

32.0 (26–45)

33.5 (25–47)

37.0 (29–49)

Sex

 Female (%)

43.5

36.9

32.5

37.5

 Male (%)

56.5

63.1

77.5

62.5

Pulmonary TB Cases (% Smear Positive)

109 (45.87)

428 (36.5)

101 (31.7)

367 (33.9)

Extra-pulmonary TB cases (% of total cases)

61 (35.6)

609 (58.7)

65 (39.2)

497 (57.5)

% with ≥1 social risk factors

20.0

6.5

18.7

7.6