C Andrés Puertas1, L Mateos Baruque, I Alonso Burgos, M González Megido. 1. Sección de Epidemiología. Servicio Territorial de Sanidad y Bienestar Social. Junta de Castilla y León de Palencia. Médico Epidemiólogo. Especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Carmen.Andres@sce.stsbs.pa.jcyl.es
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To describe the most important epidemiological characteristics and the tendency of the incidence of tuberculosis in Palencia from 1986 to 1999. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: Palencia province. PATIENTS: 1158 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 177 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: We reviewed the Obligatory Diseases Declaration and their epidemiological characteristics. We used descriptive statistics, 2 and Student tests, sensibility and positive predictive tests. There were 1158 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 177 of other tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was more frequent in men (69.2%). The most affected groups of age were 20-29 years old (20.6%) and 20-49 years old (48.2%). The group of age between 60 and 79 years old reported an incidence of 21.8%. 33 of 100 notified cases of AIDS had extrapulmonary tuberculosis and 18% had pulmonary tuberculosis. CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculosis is an important problem of public health. It's more common in young men and its epidemiological characteristics are similar to AIDS sickness in our environment.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the most important epidemiological characteristics and the tendency of the incidence of tuberculosis in Palencia from 1986 to 1999. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: Palencia province. PATIENTS: 1158 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 177 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: We reviewed the Obligatory Diseases Declaration and their epidemiological characteristics. We used descriptive statistics, 2 and Student tests, sensibility and positive predictive tests. There were 1158 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 177 of other tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was more frequent in men (69.2%). The most affected groups of age were 20-29 years old (20.6%) and 20-49 years old (48.2%). The group of age between 60 and 79 years old reported an incidence of 21.8%. 33 of 100 notified cases of AIDS had extrapulmonary tuberculosis and 18% had pulmonary tuberculosis. CONCLUSIONS:Tuberculosis is an important problem of public health. It's more common in young men and its epidemiological characteristics are similar to AIDS sickness in our environment.