Paweł Tomaszewski, Piotr Zmijewski, Jan Gajewski, Katarzyna Milde, Beata Szczepańska
[Somatic characteristics of 9-year-old boys with different levels of physical fitness]
Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism
covid19 pandemic significantly disrupted tuberculosis tb programs making urgent focus tb elimination efforts key populations people experiencing incarceration high risk tb however covid19related disruptions impacted incarcerated populations tb unknown using peruvian national tb program data jan 2018 dec 2021 interrupted time series drugsusceptible ds tb case notifications pre covid19 conducted cutoff date covid19 emergency declaration peru 16 march 2020 effect tb care occurring prevs covid19 tb treatment success incarcerated nonincarcerated populations explored using logistic regression dstb cases notified prisons jan 2018 dec 2021 n 10134 represented 10 cases notified country n 101507 first week covid19 dstb case notifications dropped 612 95 ci 599627 nonincarcerated population 177 95 ci 175179 among incarcerated population tb treatment success significantly lower people receiving tb care entirely covid19 pandemic vs covid19 nonincarcerated population 081 95 ci 078085 statistically significantly lower incarcerated population 088 95 ci 076101 incarceration status found modify effect covid19 period tb treatment outcomes 107 95 ci 092125 although treatment success higher incarcerated population incarcerated vs incarcerated precovid 152 95 ci 139167 incarcerated nonincarcerated populations experienced large drop dstb case notifications although higher nonincarcerated population lower tb treatment success among receiving care covid19 indicates significant tb service disruptions overall population finding incarceration time diagnosis associated treatment success plausible peru given increased screening stricter treatment monitoring prisons canadian institutes health research funding reference number 179418