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While there is
evidence that TB rates are higher among females among the Danish, the
Alaskan Inuit and young American blacks and Puerto Ricans. Murray (1994)
provided the evidence that females have higher mortality rates from TB
especially among young adults of 15 to 44 years old. A study of Cambodian
refugees in Thailand found that tuberculosis was more common among adult
females than among adult males (Rieder, 1999). Rieder (1999) also stated
that the opportunity of becoming exposed to an infectious case differs for
men and women because the differences in the pattern of social interaction
for both genders. He states that there might be underlying genetic and
maturational factors that impacted on the expression of tuberculosis. |