Nubukpo P, Clément J P, Grunitzky E K, Léger J M, Dumas M
Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale, Equipe EA 3174, Faculté de Médecine, 2, rue du Dr Marcland, 87025 Limoges.
Med Trop (Mars). 2005;65(2):137-42.
This transverse descriptive epidemiologic study carried out in a hospital setting in Togo over a period of 80 days included a total of 63 patients presenting acute delirious episodes. There were 25 women and 38 men ranging in age from 18 to 45 were included. Most patients were young (20 to 34 years) and presented symptoms comparable to those described elsewhere in France and Africa. However several particularites were noted in this fairly protected traditional rural setting in which delirious episodes are uncommon as compared to urban settings in which such cases are more common due to sociocultural stress, drug addiction, and HIV infection.
这项横断面描述性流行病学研究在多哥的一家医院进行，为期80天，共纳入63例出现急性谵妄发作的患者。其中有25名女性和38名男性，年龄在18至45岁之间。大多数患者较为年轻（20至34岁），其症状与法国和非洲其他地方所描述的症状相似。然而，在这个相对封闭的传统农村环境中发现了一些特殊情况，与城市环境相比，谵妄发作在农村并不常见，在城市环境中，由于社会文化压力、药物成瘾和艾滋病毒感染，此类病例更为常见。
