for subjects with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis after indirect adjustment for smoking. The smoking-adjusted standardized mortality ratio for those without a history of pulmonary tuberculosis was
4.96 (95% CI 2.83e8.02) regardless of the presence of comorbidities; specifically, smoking-adjusted standardized mortality ratio were 4.25 (95% CI1.55e9.25) and 5.92 (95% CI 1.92e13.79) for non- pulmonary tuberculosis patients
with comorbidities and non-pulmonary tuberculosis patients without comorbidities,
respectively.