Open AccessAnalysis of hospitalizations and deaths by epilepsy in the years of 2010 to 2019 in Brazil
Author(s) -
Carolina Souza Basso,
Júlia Bortolini Roehrig,
Ana Luiza Savioli,
René Ochagavia Chagas de Oliveira,
Isabella Montemaggiore Busin,
Laura Toffoli,
Victória Bento Alves Paglioli,
Natali Rocha Bernich,
Gabriela Kreutz Ferrari,
Júlia Estrazulas Falcetta,
Bruna Cristina Cardoso Martins,
Bianca Briques da Silva,
Lucas Henrique Skalei Redmann,
Vitória Fassina,
Vanessa Saling Gugliemi,
Ana Laura Terra Affonso
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5327/1516-3180.421
Subject(s) - race (biology) , epilepsy , medicine , demography , pediatrics , gerontology , psychiatry , botany , sociology , biology
Backgroud: Epilepsy is a chronic, recurrent disease, characterized by paroxysmal changes in intellectual, sensory, motor, autonomic or affective activity, with limited time. Objectives: To analyze cases of hospitalizations and deaths between 2010 and 2019 in Brazil. Methods: Descriptive epidemiologic study using data from the Department of Information of the Brazilian Health System (DATASUS). The variables researched were: hospital admissions, death, brazilian regions, age group, gender and race. Results: It was accounted 196,351 hospitalizations, 52% in the Southeast, 25% in the South, 14.7% in the Northeast, 5% in the Midwest and 3.1% in the North. In relation to profile, the male gender (59.9%) constituted the majority. In the case of deaths, 12.723 males and 6.557 females were reported, of which 46,4% were white and 41,8% were brown race. Major part of the deaths, 41,9% happened in the Southeast. The most affected age group was between 40 and 49, with 20.5% of cases. Conclusions: Therefore, most hospitalizations and deaths occurred in men, aged between 40 and 59 years, of white race, residents of the Southeast region.