Prevalencia de tuberculosis en pacientes de 18 a 40 años, atendidos en el área de consulta externa de un centro de salud de la ciudad de Guayaquil, año 2020.

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease, the most common form is pulmonary; however, it can also affect any other organ or tissue. In Ecuador in 2018, 6,094 cases of sensitive tuberculosis were reported with an incidence rate of 34.53 per 100,000 inhabitants. The work carried out deals with the prevalence of this disease in patients between 18 and 40 years of age. Objective was to analyze the prevalence of tuberculosis in patients between 18 and 40 years old, treated in the outpatient area of a health center in the city of Guayaquil, year 2020, for which a design was used with a quantitative approach, descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional through indirect observation, with an indirect observation guide, where the population constituted the total sample with 33 patients. The Results: 34% are between 26 and 35 years old; 76% are men, 46% have a free union; 49% studied until high school; 61% reside in urban areas; 52% are of mestizo ethnicity; 97% have a history of tuberculosis; 79% associated with Diabetes Mellitus. Conclusion: The prevalence of tuberculosis in our Community continues to be an important Public Health problem, it is necessary to insist on the need to determine HIV status in patients with TB, belonging to middle age groups and with risk factors. associates. The same is that it is necessary to maintain good levels of supervised Treatments in those groups in which they are indicated.