Abstract

ZUBIETA RUBIN DE CELIS, Azucena  and  CRUZ NINA, Justa. Socioeconomic risk factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in patients aged 15 or older. Model Municipal Hospital Korea city El Alto, management 2012. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2014, vol.55, n.2, pp.17-23. ISSN 1562-6776.

Objective: To determine whether socioeconomic conditions such as overcrowding, temporary migration for work and malnutrition are risk factors for the development ofpulmonary tuberculosis in people aged 15 or more years of age, treated at the Department of Internal Medicine Hospital Model Municipal Korea, City of El Alto from January to October 2012 management. Method.- observational epidemiological study, analytical Case-Control in patients over 15 years of age. 34 Cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 68 controls with other diagnoses were analyzed in the study included all new patients diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis who met the case definition. Controls were patients with other diagnoses except tuberculosis or chronic respiratory infections. Earnings.- overcrowding (sleeping in the same room more than three people) increases the probability of having tuberculosis 3 times (OR = 2.83, 95% CI -6.634 1.211) than those who do not live in overcrowded. Those who temporarily migrated abroad as Argentina, Brazil and Chile to work are 4 times (OR = 3.72, 95% CI 1.2 to 11.5) more likely to have TB disease than those who did not migrate abroad. Malnutrition is a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis, those with malnutrition have 12 times (OR = 11.6, CI 4-34) greater risk of tuberculosis that those without malnutrition. Conclusions.- was shown that socioeconomic factors such as overcrowding, labor migration and malnutrition are risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis, the most important malnutrition

Keywords : Tuberculosis; factores de riesgo socioeconómicos; hacinamiento; desnutrición; migración.

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