Mapeamento epidemiológico das hepatites hospitalares

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic and epidemiological aspects of patients with hepatitis B and/or C treated at a university hospital in Northeastern Brazil. Methods: This descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study was conducted at the Piaui University Hospital with 98 patients diagnosed with hepatitis B and/or C between July 2014 to December 2017. Data were collected from viral hepatitis investigation sheets and analyzed using the SPSS. Results: Most participants were over 60 years old (48.0%, n=47), male (67.3%, n=66), pardos (Mixed-race Brazilians) (77.6%, n=76), had completed primary education or less (58.1%, n=57), and were originally from urban areas (88.8%, n=87) and retired (28.6%, n=28). In all, 58.2% (n=57) did not get hepatitis B vaccination and genotypes 1 and 3 were prevalent among carriers of virus C. Chronic hepatitis was present in 75.5% (n=74) of the cases and the most frequent sources of infection were transfusion, sex and drug use. Virus B was significantly associated with: patients aged 40 to 59 years, other municipalities, urban area and sexual transmission. Virus C was significantly associated with: older adults, the city of Teresina, urban area, chronic form of the disease and transfusion. Conclusion: There was a higher prevalence of hospital viral hepatitis in older patients, male patients, patients with low levels of education, and patients who already had the chronic form of the disease, the most common being virus C.