Abstract

TEJERA IBARRA, Graciela Trinidad  and  DINZA TEJERA, Dennys. Geriatric morbidity in "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital of Santiago de Cuba . MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.12, pp.1845-1851. ISSN 1029-3019.

A retrospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 130 patients older than 65 years, selected through simple random method during their admission to the Geriatrics Department of "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital of Santiago de Cuba, from June to December 2011, in order to identify the main causes of morbidity in these elderly. In the series most of the patients were male with prevalence of the age group of 65-69 years, and respiratory diseases as cause of morbidity, mainly bronchopneumonia, followed by a lesser frequency of cardiovascular and neoplastic diseases predominated, of them hypertension and lung cancer prevailed with a higher number of patients, respectively. Rate of prevalence was estimated to express the morbidity and as statistical summary unit, percentage was used.

Keywords : elderly; geriatric morbidity; respiratory diseases; bronchopneumonia; Geriatrics Department; secondary health care.

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