Determining the course of the disease and its changes over time can be of great importance in assessing the rate and manner of access to the strategies used to control illnesses. This retrospective descriptive-analytic study was carried out with a survey of patients with tuberculosis in the affiliated cities of the Abadan School of Medical Sciences during a period of 5 years. The required data were collected from the "TB Register" software as well as information registered by TB health experts. The Kolmogorov Smirnov, Independent-T, Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon tests were used for analysis of data using SPSS 22-software. In this study, 720 patients with tuberculosis were studied, of whom 62.9% were male. 73.6% of patients lived in urban areas. The prevalence of tuberculosis is 22.34 per 100,000 population, of which 15.36 per 100,000 is pulmonary tuberculosis. Mean age of patients was 41.39 (SD±17.69) years with a range of 4-92 years. Considering the fact that tuberculosis is a lifelimiting disease and is most prevalent in the young age group of society, who are considered as the main capital and workforce, educating people who are at risk can significantly contribute to the prevention of disease.
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