TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Disability Evaluation
KW - Educational Status
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
KW - Prognosis
KW - Retrospective Studies
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Severity of Illness Index
AU - Moschioni C
AU - Antunes CMF
AU - Faria Grossi MA
AU - Lambertucci JR
AB - <p><b>INTRODUCTION: </b>The purpose of this study was to evaluate risk factors for physical disability at the moment of leprosy diagnosis.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>This is a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory investigation of 19,283 patients with leprosy, registered in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2000 and 2005.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>The risk of Grade 2 disability was 16.5-fold higher in patients with lepromatous leprosy, and 12.8-fold higher in patients presenting the borderline form, compared to patients presenting indeterminate leprosy. The occurrence of more than one thickened nerve increased the odds of a patient developing Grade 2 disability, 8.4-fold. Age <15 years, multibacillary leprosy and no formal education presented 7.0, 5.7 and 5.6 odds of developing physical disability, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS: </b>These factors should be considered as strong prognostic indicators in the development of physical disability at diagnosis.</p>
BT - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305962?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2010 Jan-Feb
DO - 10.1590/s0037-86822010000100005
IS - 1
J2 - Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.
LA - eng
N2 - <p><b>INTRODUCTION: </b>The purpose of this study was to evaluate risk factors for physical disability at the moment of leprosy diagnosis.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>This is a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory investigation of 19,283 patients with leprosy, registered in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2000 and 2005.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>The risk of Grade 2 disability was 16.5-fold higher in patients with lepromatous leprosy, and 12.8-fold higher in patients presenting the borderline form, compared to patients presenting indeterminate leprosy. The occurrence of more than one thickened nerve increased the odds of a patient developing Grade 2 disability, 8.4-fold. Age <15 years, multibacillary leprosy and no formal education presented 7.0, 5.7 and 5.6 odds of developing physical disability, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS: </b>These factors should be considered as strong prognostic indicators in the development of physical disability at diagnosis.</p>
PY - 2010
SP - 19
EP - 22
T2 - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
TI - Risk factors for physical disability at diagnosis of 19,283 new cases of leprosy.
VL - 43
SN - 1678-9849
ER -