Setting: A rural Zimbabwean hospital and the surrounding community.

Objectives: To determine whether a particular haptoglobin phenotype is associated with increased susceptibility to clinical pulmonary tuberculosis, and to determine the outcome of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis according to haptoglobin phenotype.

Design: A case-control study, and a prospective cohort study.

Results: We studied 98 consecutive patients with sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and 98 sex- and age-matched controls. The haptoglobin (Hp) phenotype distributions did not differ significantly between the tuberculosis patients and controls (P = 0.5). During the 18-month follow-up period after the start of tuberculosis treatment, 6/18 (33%) cases with Hp 2-2 phenotype died compared to 9/47 (19%) with Hp 2-1 and 3/31 (10%) with Hp 1-1. In a logistic regression model, the odds of dying were 6.1-fold greater with Hp 2-2 than with Hp 1-1 (95%CI 1.04-35.1, P = 0.04).

Conclusion: Our results suggest that there is equal susceptibility to clinical pulmonary tuberculosis disease amongst different haptoglobin phenotypes. Nonetheless, tuberculosis patients with Hp 2-2 phenotype had a higher risk of mortality.

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