{"doi":"10.7759/cureus.44857","title":"Cross-Risk Between Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in East Java Province, Indonesia: An Analysis of Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Surveillance Registry Period 2020–2022","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 are highly transmissible diseases and pose a serious risk to public health. Unfortunately, information on cross-risk between the two diseases was still sparse. Our main objective was to estimate the excess risk among TB patients in getting COVID-19 infection and vice versa. METHODS: The study design was a series of analyses of existing data from TB and COVID-19 registries in East Java Province, Indonesia. The study period was from January 2020 to June 2022. Case-by-case data for this study were obtained from the registration systems for TB and COVID-19 in separate databases. In comparing risk across different groups, adjusting for differences in risk factors that influence the outcome was essential. We overcame this problem by employing a standardized morbidity ratio. RESULTS: Among 92,424 newly diagnosed TB patients, 1,326 were subsequently infected with COVID-19 during the study period, compared with 1,679 expected. The standardized morbidity ratio (95% confidence interval) was 72.61% (60.19%, 85.03%). Among 635,946 newly diagnosed COVID-19-infected patients, 987 subsequently got active TB during the study period against 1,679 expected. The standardized morbidity ratio (95% confidence interval) was 55.33% (49.24%, 61.42%). CONCLUSION: There was no evidence of excess risk in either direction, the excess risk among TB patients in getting COVID-19 infection and vice versa.","journal":"Cureus","year":2023,"id":411198,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8848,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":390432,"name":"Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong","orcid":"0000-0002-9850-4463","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1122859,"name":"Asik Surya","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1122413,"name":"Suyanto Suyanto","orcid":"0000-0001-7659-6689","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":751415,"name":"Ponlagrit Kumwichar","orcid":"0000-0002-1580-5720","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1122857,"name":"Satiti Palupi","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":30,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:21:38.940853Z","pmid":"37692189","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}