Tuberculosis asociada al consumo y dependencia de tabaco en pacientes del área de neumología del Hospital General Guasmo Sur en el periodo de mayo del 2020 a mayo del 2021.

Abstract

Tuberculosis continues to exist as a high-ranking public health problem that affects globally, however, its highest incidence range occurs within countries that are still developing. Several risk factors associated with M. tuberculosis infection are known, one of the main ones and the one that will have the greatest impact in this research is smoking; It is known that this habit will be directly responsible for 6 million annual deaths. The objective of this study is to establish the direct relationship between patients who consume or depend on tobacco and the incidence of contagion or infection by tuberculosis, for this a universe made up of a total of 560 hospitalized patients in the Pneumology area between the period from May 2020 to May 2021 will be studied. Patients without a definitive diagnosis of Tuberculosis were excluded, which gave us a final sample of 484 patients who met the study criteria. An observational, prevalence, cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out. The results obtained within this research were that, in effect, there is a highly significant association between tobacco use and the increased incidence of tuberculosis infection, since 484 patients were diagnosed, 292 had a history of smoking. In turn, a greater range of incidence was observed in men, with 77.74% of the entire sample, and a mean age of 38.1 years.