Nicolas A Menzies, Suzanne M Marks, Yuli L Hsieh, Nicole A Swartwood, Garrett R Beeler Asay, Jacek Skarbinski, C Robert Horsburgh, Ted Cohen
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Abstract
Rationale: Individuals surviving tuberculosis (TB) disease may experience chronic sequelae that reduce survival and quality of life. These post-TB sequalae are not generally considered in estimates of the health impact of TB disease. Objectives: To estimate the TB-attributable reductions in life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy for individuals developing TB disease in the United States, including post-TB sequelae. Methods: We extracted national surveillance data on individuals with diagnoses of TB from 2015 to 2019, including demographics, vital status at diagnosis, treatment duration, treatment outcome, and coprevalent conditions. Using a mathematical model, we simulated life expectancy and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) for the TB cohort compared with a no-TB counterfactual (with the same distributions of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and coprevalent conditions as the TB cohort but without TB-attributable mortality and disutility). We disaggregated results to report the proportions of QALYs and life-years lost from TB due to post-TB sequelae and stratified outcomes by age, sex, and race. Measurements and Main Results: Estimated life expectancy after TB diagnosis was 30.3 (95% uncertainty interval, 29.9-30.7) years for the TB cohort versus 32.3 (31.9-32.7) years without TB, a difference of 2.03 (1.84-2.21) years and 1.93 (1.69-2.18) QALYs. Life-years lost were greatest for individuals 65-74 years of age versus other age groups, for men versus women, and for American Indian or Alaska Native individuals versus persons from other races/ethnicities. Overall, 41% (35-46%) of life-years and 48% (42-54%) of QALYs lost were estimated to result from post-TB sequelae. Conclusions: In the United States, a substantial fraction of life-years and QALYs lost from TB are attributable to post-TB sequelae. Evidence is needed on approaches to prevent and repair post-TB lung damage in the context of frequent coprevalent health conditions.
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The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine focuses on human biology and disease, as well as animal studies that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system and critically ill patients. Papers that are solely or predominantly based in cell and molecular biology are published in the companion journal, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. The Journal also seeks to publish clinical trials and outstanding review articles on areas of interest in several forms. The State-of-the-Art review is a treatise usually covering a broad field that brings bench research to the bedside. Shorter reviews are published as Critical Care Perspectives or Pulmonary Perspectives. These are generally focused on a more limited area and advance a concerted opinion about care for a specific process. Concise Clinical Reviews provide an evidence-based synthesis of the literature pertaining to topics of fundamental importance to the practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Images providing advances or unusual contributions to the field are published as Images in Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and the Sciences.
A recent trend and future direction of the Journal has been to include debates of a topical nature on issues of importance in pulmonary and critical care medicine and to the membership of the American Thoracic Society. Other recent changes have included encompassing works from the field of critical care medicine and the extension of the editorial governing of journal policy to colleagues outside of the United States of America. The focus and direction of the Journal is to establish an international forum for state-of-the-art respiratory and critical care medicine.
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