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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Epidemiological aspects of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in older Brazilians: a comparative approach
Autores: | Carvalho,Luiz Max Fagundes de; Câmara,Fernando Portela.
Data: | 2012-02-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Acquired immunodeficiency; Syndrome; Health of the elderly; Statistical analysis; Epidemiology; Risk factors.
Resumo: | OBJECTIVES: To compare epidemiological aspects of young (15 to 49 years old) and older (more than 50 years old) AIDS patients. METHODS: We analyzed 511,633 AIDS cases notified to the Brazilian Ministry of Health in the period of 1980-2008 looking at sex, age ranges, educational level and exposure category. Patients were divided into three age groups: under 15, from 15 to 49 and over 50 years old. Using a comparative approach, we analyzed data with regard to category of exposure, education (expressed in years of schooling), and sex ratio among younger (15-49) and older adults (over 50 years old). Time series data were log-transformed and normalized, and the temporal trend was evaluated. RESULTS: AIDS incidence is increasing among people over 50 years old in Brazil, with those older than 50 being responsible for 9.64 % of AIDS cases. There was no significant difference between educational level and gender (p = 0.468), but there was a significant difference in exposure category with a lower proportion of injecting drug users amongst the older group. CONCLUSION: Based on this analysis over the last 10 years, the percentage of AIDS cases has increased almost three times among people over 50 years old when compared with the 15-49 year-old group. Our findings suggest that public campaigns have to be specially targeted to the older segment of the population, aiming at heterosexual transmission.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000100006
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702012000100006
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.16 n.1 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess