ESTUDO DO PERFIL EPIDEMIOLÓGICO DOS PACIENTES PORTADORES DE TUBERCULOSE NA REGIÃO DE SAÚDE CENTRO-SUL (RJ) DOS CASOS CONFIRMADOS ENTRE 2020 E 2024

Resumen

About one third of the world population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Brazil is one of the countries with the largest number of cases in the world. The objective of the present study was to draw the epidemiological profile of patients with tuberculosis in the Central-South Health Region (RJ) in the period from 2020 to 2024, aiming to create actions to prevent the occurrence of new cases, reducing morbidity and mortality, in addition to spending on tuberculosis by SUS locally. This is a cross-sectional, observational, quantitative, descriptive study, where the data were taken from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases - Sinan Net, from the years 2020 to 2024. 843 cases of tuberculosis were reported in the period, where it was analyzed the following variables: age group, education, race, sex, type of entry, form of cases, joint infection with HIV, conducting supervised treatment and situation of closing the case. The most common profile found was patients aged 20 to 39 years (44.01%), complete high school (10.98%), male (74.26%), new case (77.22%), pulmonary form (91.10%), HIV infection (negative 83.81%), supervised treatment (10.44%) and closure due to cure (63.70%). The most common profile found was similar to that of studies carried out in other cities and regions of Brazil. There is still much to improve in the Centro-Sul Health Region (RJ), although it has numbers higher than the national indices for most of the variables analyzed in the study.