Medical Student in Uninovafapi University Center, Brazil.
Medical Student in Uninovafapi University Center, Brazil.
Toxicon. 2024 Sep;248:108039. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2024.108039. Epub 2024 Jul 29.
Accidents caused by venomous animals, especially scorpions, are a major public health problem due to the increase in incidence in recent decades, since scorpion species have become well adapted to urbanized environments. Nonetheless, the impact of urbanization in scorpionism is not clear. The objective of this study is to correlate the variation in the incidence of scorpion accidents with the rate of urbanized area. This was a retrospective, epidemiological study of accidents by scorpions in 376 of the most populous Brazilian cities in 2019 and compared to ten years earlier, using Spearman's correlation coefficient. Data were obtained by accessing DATASUS/TABNET and IBGE Cidades platforms. A weak negative correlation between scorpion stings and urbanization was found in 2009 (r = -0.145). The correlation between the variation in the incidence of scorpionism and the percentage of urbanized area was not significant. Although the highest incidence of scorpionism occurs in-more urbanized environments, there is a wide distribution of scorpion accidents, especially in tropical and subtropical regions due to climatic conditions, the level of urbanization of Brazilian municipalities was not the major factor in the increase of scorpion accidents.
由于近年来发病率的增加，毒蛇，尤其是蝎子，引起的事故已成为一个主要的公共卫生问题，因为蝎子物种已经很好地适应了城市化环境。尽管如此，城市化对蝎子病的影响尚不清楚。本研究的目的是将蝎子事故发生率的变化与城市化率进行相关分析。这是对 2019 年巴西 376 个人口最多的城市的蝎子事故进行的回顾性、流行病学研究，并与十年前进行了比较，使用了斯皮尔曼相关系数。数据通过访问 DATASUS/TABNET 和 IBGE Cidades 平台获得。2009 年发现蝎子蜇伤与城市化之间存在微弱的负相关(r=-0.145)。蝎子病发病率的变化与城市化面积百分比之间没有显著相关性。尽管蝎子病发病率最高的环境城市化程度较高，但由于气候条件，蝎子事故分布广泛，特别是在热带和亚热带地区，巴西市政当局的城市化水平并不是蝎子事故增加的主要因素。
