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Effect of smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.


ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Numerous studies have explored an effect of cigarette smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes but with dissimilar conclusions. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of cigarette smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes. METHODS:PubMed, Cochrane library and Google scholar databases were searched last on February 27, 2019. We applied the random-effects model for the analysis. Publication bias was assessed using funnel plot and Egger's regression. Furthermore, we performed Orwin's Fail-Safe N and cumulative meta-analysis to check for small studies' effect. RESULTS:Out of 22 studies we included in the qualitative synthesis, 12 studies reported p-values less than 0.05 where smoking significantly favored poor treatment outcomes. The remaining 10 studies reported p-values larger than 0.05 implying that smoking does not affect the treatment outcomes. Twenty studies met the criteria for inclusion in a meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that smoking significantly increased the likelihood of poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes by 51% (OR = 1.51; 95% CI = 1.30 to 1.75 and I-square = 75.1%). In a sub-group analysis, the effect was higher for low- and middle-income countries (OR = 1.74; 95% CI = 1.31 to 2.30) and upper-middle-income economies (OR = 1.52; 95% CI = 1.16 to 1.98) than for high-income ones (OR = 1.34; 95% CI = 1.03 to 1.75) even though the differences in the effects among the strata were not statistically significant as demonstrated by overlapping of confidence intervals of the effects. Meta-regression analysis, adjusted for income economies, found the effect of smoking has not significantly improved over the years (p = 0.92) and thus implying neither of the covariates were source of the heterogeneity. Egger's regression test indicated that publication bias is unlikely (p = 0.403). CONCLUSION:Cigarette smoking is significantly linked with poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes.

SUBMITTER: Burusie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7498109 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effect of smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Burusie Abay A   Enquesilassie Fikre F   Addissie Adamu A   Dessalegn Berhe B   Lamaro Tafesse T  

PloS one 20200917 9


<h4>Introduction</h4>Numerous studies have explored an effect of cigarette smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes but with dissimilar conclusions.<h4>Objective</h4>To determine the effect of cigarette smoking on tuberculosis treatment outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>PubMed, Cochrane library and Google scholar databases were searched last on February 27, 2019. We applied the random-effects model for the analysis. Publication bias was assessed using funnel plot and Egger's regression. Furthermore, we  ...[more]

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