Abstract

GONZALEZ VALIENTE, María Luisa; CONILL DIAZ, Tomasa  and  PEREZ SALGADO, Rolando. Incidencia de las intoxicaciones agudas. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1999, vol.15, n.1, pp.24-31. ISSN 0864-2125.

A descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study was conducted to know the incidence of acute poisonings and their main characteristics, and to assess the morbimortality indicators to propose measures for the control and prevention of this disease. The universe was composed of all the people living in the territory of Marianao. A probabilistic representative sample was obtained by the combined method (stratified and conglomerate). The risk of acute poisonings was 363.1 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, a much higher figure compared with that of the country, according to the report of the Statistical System of Diseases of Compulsory Declaration. Females doubled the risk in comparison with males. The risk at pediatric ages was much more higher that in the adults. The greatest frequency of cases occurred between 5 and 9 years old, whereas among adults the highest incidence was in the youngest (15 to 24). There was a predominance of the risk of accidents in general, but in women the supremacy was observed in the voluntary cause. The most frequent causal agents of poisonings were drugs and, particularly, the psychotropic drugs

Keywords : POISONING [epidemiology].

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