A retrospective study on the hospital prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in Niger, Taraba and Kogi States between 1990 and 1994

Abstract

A five-year retrospective study of human tuberculosis (TB) was conducted in selected towns in Kogi, Niger and Taraba States from 1990 to 1994 using hospital records. During this period, 6,506 were recorded in the three states, with 330 (5%) occurring in Kogi State and 363 (5.6%) and 5,813 (89.3%) in Niger and Taraba States respectively. In all the three states, it was discovered
that the morbidity and mortality rates of the disease were consistently higher in males than in females. There appeared to be a fluctuating pattern of yearly distribution of TB in all the states studied but generally, it could be said to have declined over the five-year study period (1990 to 1994).