Profile of patients who have died with multiple sclerosis in Brazil

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause of chronic neurological disability in young adults. We evaluate, through retrospective study, epidemiological characteristics, the patient profile of dying with multiple sclerosis in 170 patients. This pathology has its distribution more common breed in white, the gender distribution is more common in women and the relationship with age is rare in adolescence and higher than 60 years and is very common at 30 years old. Data were collected from the DATASUS Health Information (Tabnet). Multiple sclerosis morbidity was selected. An analysis was made between the years 2009 and 2013, the variable sex, age and race. For analysis techniques were used descriptive statistics getting the absolute frequency, using the statistical program SPSS18. Total number of deaths in the past five years were 170 cases, of these, 81 (47.648%) male and 89 (52.352) female. The number of deaths by age group is given as follows: 10-14 years 1 case (0.588%), 15-19 years 1 (0.588%), 20 to 29 years, 8 (4,705 %), 30-39 years old, 17 (10%), 40-49 years old, 32 (18.823%), 50-59 years old, 36 (21.117%), 60-69 years 28 (16.470%), 70-79 years old, 26 (15.294%) and over 80 years, 21 cases (12.415%). Deaths from whites race, 80 cases (46.058%), black, 4 (2.301%), Brown, 35 (20.288%), yellow, 3 (1.664%), unreported, 51 (30%). Note is a concordance of the results with the literature, although the age group that has the largest number of deaths and between 50 to 59 years.