Abstract

QUEVEDO LORENZO, Ileana et al. Some clinical-epidemiological aspects of Hansen's disease in the Yara municipality. Granma. 2013-2017. Multimed [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.1, pp.11-21. ISSN 1028-4818.

The leprosy is a transmissible disease so ancient like the man per se. A descriptive retrospective study, in order to characterize some clinical epidemiologic aspects of the leprosy in the period, accomplished 2013 itself - 2017, Municipio Yara, Provincia, Granma. The universe was constituted for 13 patients notified and registered with the disease. A payroll that gathered the clinical epidemiologic variables was manufactured: Age, sex, and clinical forms (According To Madrid and operational or sanitary), you utilized the statistical method of by the hundreds for the processing of the data. The year of bigger incidence of the disease was 2014, the group etáreo 60-74 years I contribute the bigger number of cases, the masculine sex was the more representative, the clinical forms according to the classification of Madrid, prevailing lepromatosa, according to the operational the multi-bacillar was leprosy. The active investigation and opportune diagnosis of the leprosy would be able to decrease the appearing of his complications that it causes and the invalidity.

Keywords : leprosy.

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