Open AccessPrevalence and Epidemiological Study of hepatitis B and C patients admitted to BEN AMOR DJILANI hospital in El Oued, Algeria
Author(s) -
S. Derouiche
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pharmaceutical and biosciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0540
DOI - 10.20510/pbj/9/i3/1500
Subject(s) - epidemiology , medicine , hepatitis b , hepatitis , pediatrics , population , disease , hepatitis c , hepatitis a virus , demography , surgery , environmental health , virology , virus , sociology
The Goal of the present study is to evaluate the epidemiological variations of hepatitis B and C in El Oued population. Our epidemiological study was carried out on 1798 hepatitis patients admitted to hospital BEN AMOR DJILANI the period (January 2013 to December 2020) in El Oued region. In Results, 5.45% of patients were aged less than 20 years 72.14% of the patients are aged between 20-40 years, 15.85% patients are ages between 40-60 years and 6.56 % patient are aged more than 60 years. In the other hand, 57.29% of hepatitis patients are men versus 42.71% are women. In this study, 95% of the patients had a hepatitis B whereas 5% of the people were affected by hepatitis C. Concerning regions of hepatitis patients, the eastern region include the highest number with 37%, followed by - with a small difference - the central region with 33%, then come the southern region with 18%, the northern region contain 11% and at least the western region which include the lowest number of hepatitis patients with 1%, of total cases of hepatitis patients in the state of El Oued. Hence epidemiological studies are needed to understand and improve facilities and implement effective treatment measures to control the disease and thus help to reduce mortality in the society associated with this disease.