Kaur S, Kumar B, Roy S N
Lepr India. 1982 Jul;54(3):428-40.
Data on 603 leprosy patients registered with the Leprosy clinic at the Nehru Hospital attached to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh was analysed. The sample was collected over a period of 6 years in this area of very low endemicity. The overall average age at onset of the disease was 35.07 years. Majority of the patients had contacted the disease by the age of 39 years. Only 2% patients presented with the disease in the first decade. Males were more often seen with the disease than the females (M:F, 3:6:1). The highest represented type of leprosy was borderline (47.7%) and least represented was lepromatous (24.4%) with tuberculoid group inbetween (27.9%). The most common sites of first lesion were the exposed areas i.e. hand, trunk, feet and forearm. Most of the patients came from high prevalence states of the country. There were, however, 118 Punjabis and 41 Haryanvis who had never been outside their home states to any endemic area. The findings are presented.
对在昌迪加尔医学教育与研究研究生院附属尼赫鲁医院麻风病诊所登记的603名麻风病患者的数据进行了分析。该样本是在这个低流行率地区6年的时间里收集的。该病发病的总体平均年龄为35.07岁。大多数患者在39岁之前感染该病。只有2%的患者在第一个十年就患上了该病。男性比女性更常患该病（男:女，3.6:1）。麻风病最常见的类型是界线类（47.7%），最不常见的是瘤型（24.4%），结核样型介于两者之间（27.9%）。首个皮损最常见的部位是暴露部位，即手部、躯干、足部和前臂。大多数患者来自该国麻风病高流行率的邦。然而，有118名旁遮普人和41名哈里亚纳人从未离开过他们的家乡邦前往任何麻风病流行地区。现将研究结果呈现如下。
