| A Study on Change of Incidence of Radiologically Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Seoul National University Freshmen from 1977 Till 1987 |
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Jun Hee Woo1, Sung Koo Han1, Young Soo Shim1, Keun Youl Kim1, Young Chol Han1, Jin Yung Kim2 |
1Tuberculosis Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2Health Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea |
| 서울대학교 신입생에서 최근 10년간 폐결핵 유병률에 관한 연구 |
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우준희1, 한성구1, 심영수1, 김건열1, 한용철1, 김진영2 |
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| Abstract |
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The incidence of radiologically active pulmonary tuberculosis among the freshmen of Seoul National University has been examined during the period of 1977- 1987, and it has been compared with the incidence of Korean general population and also with the incidence of the similar age group in Korea.
1) Among the freshmen, the incidences of radiologically active pulmonary tuberculosis in consecutive year from 1977 are 2.5 % in 1977, 1.0% in 1978, 1.5% in 1979, 1.7% in 1980, 1.1 % in 1981, 0.5% in 1982, 0.6% in 1983, 0.7% in 1984, 0.6% in 1985, 0.6% in 1986, and 0.2% in 1987.
2) Comparing the incidences of radiologically active pulmonary tuberculosis between Seoul National University freshmen and Korean general population, the Korean general population showed higher incidence of 2.5% in 1980, 2.2% in 1985 respectively 3) In comparisons between Seoul National University freshmen and similar age group of Korean general population, the latter showed 2.1 % in 1980, 1.7% in 1985 respectively.
4) The comparison of incidences between male and female freshmen showed higher incidence among male in all consecutive years except in 1979.
5) The incidence of radiologically active pulmonary tuberculosis was higher among the students of repeatedly taking a college entrance examinations than the students of not repeating it except in 1985 and 1986.
6) The incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis was high among freshmen of colleges of law and engineering and low in college of music and college of domestic economics.
7) Drop out rate during the follow-up treatment period in Health center was 55.5% and cure rate was 44 .4% |
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