| Registro completo |
| Provedor de dados: |
BJID
|
| 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
|
| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
|
