Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore
Wah, Win, Das, Sourav, Earnest, Arul, Lim, Leo Kang Yang, Chee, Cynthia Bin Eng, Cook, Alex Richard, Wang, Yee Tang, Win, Khin Mar Kyi, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock, and Hsu, Li Yang (2014) Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore. BMC Public Health, 14 (1). 1121.
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Abstract
Background: Singapore is an intermediate tuberculosis (TB) incidence country, with a recent rise in TB incidence from 2008, after a fall in incidence since 1998. This study identified population characteristics that were associated with the recent increase in TB cases, and built a predictive model of TB risk in Singapore.
Methods: Retrospective time series analysis was used to study TB notification data collected from 1995 to 2011 from the Singapore Tuberculosis Elimination Program (STEP) registry. A predictive model was developed based on the data collected from 1995 to 2010 and validated using the data collected in 2011.
Results: There was a significant difference in demographic characteristics between resident and non-resident TB cases. TB risk was higher in non-residents than in residents throughout the period. We found no significant association between demographic and macro-economic factors and annual incidence of TB with or without adjusting for the population-at-risk. Despite growing non-resident population, there was a significant decrease in the non-resident TB risk (p < 0.0001). However, there was no evidence of trend in the resident TB risk over this time period, though differences between different demographic groups were apparent with ethnic minorities experiencing higher incidence rates.
Conclusion: The study found that despite an increasing size of non-resident population, TB risk among non-residents was decreasing at a rate of about 3% per year. There was an apparent seasonality in the TB reporting.
| Item ID: | 59177 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1471-2458 |
| Keywords: | Time-series analysis, Tuberculosis |
| Copyright Information: | © 2014 Wah et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Funders: | Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, Singapore, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2019 01:29 |
| FoR Codes: | 01 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES > 0104 Statistics > 010402 Biostatistics @ 50% 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111706 Epidemiology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9204 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) > 920404 Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response) @ 100% |
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