Estigarribia Gladys, Román Oscar, Aguirre Sarita, Sequera Guillermo, Aguilar Gloria, Toledo Nuñez Santiago David, Rodríguez Aldo, Ríos-González Carlos Miguel, Martínez Pablo, Méndez Romero Julieta María, Valdez Benítez Melissa Patricia
Instituto Regional de Investigación en Salud, Universidad Nacional de Caaguazú, Paraguay.
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social, Asunción, Paraguay.
Rev Chilena Infectol. 2020 Dec;37(6):750-755. doi: 10.4067/S0716-10182020000600750.
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide.
To characterize the clinical and epidemiological point of view of TB cases reported in the Department of Caaguazú-Paraguay, from 2014 to 2017.
Observational, descriptive, retrospective study; Population: 659 cases of TB registered in the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTCP); variables: age, sex, population group, type of TB, TB/HIV coinfection. We procesed database in Excel 2016 © using Stata 14.0®.
63.3% were of male gender, average age: 35.8 years, 39.6% were indigenous and 85.4% were liberty deprived persons known as inmates (LDP), 89.6% had pulmonary TB and 2,4% had TB/HIV coinfection. Incidence rate exceed 21.6/100,000 inhabitants in 2014. Indigenous incidence was 76.5/100,000 inhabitants in 2017, LDP incidence was 2,272.1/ 100,000 inhabitants in 2017.
The incidence of TB in the Department of Caaguazú is low, mainly affecting men, while TB incidence in indigenous people and LDP was high.
结核病是全球十大主要死因之一。
从临床和流行病学角度描述2014年至2017年巴拉圭卡瓜苏省报告的结核病病例情况。
观察性、描述性、回顾性研究;研究对象:国家结核病控制项目(NTCP)登记的659例结核病病例;变量:年龄、性别、人群组、结核病类型、结核病/艾滋病毒合并感染。我们使用Stata 14.0®在Excel 2016©中处理数据库。
63.3%为男性,平均年龄:35.8岁,39.6%为原住民,85.4%为被剥夺自由者,即囚犯(LDP),89.6%患有肺结核,2.4%患有结核病/艾滋病毒合并感染。2014年发病率超过21.6/10万居民。2017年原住民发病率为76.5/10万居民,2017年LDP发病率为2272.1/10万居民。
卡瓜苏省的结核病发病率较低,主要影响男性,而原住民和LDP的结核病发病率较高。