Publications by authors named "Clarice Pessoa Almeida"
Epidemiological and clinical factors associated with lethality from Human Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northeastern Brazil, 2007 to 2018.
Kellyn Kessiene de Sousa Cavalcante Clarice Pessoa Almeida Reagan Nzundu Boigny Francisco Roger Aguiar Cavalcante Francisco Gustavo Silveira Correia
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
September 2022
Article Synopsis
- * Key risk factors for higher mortality include being elderly, black, experiencing jaundice and edema, and not taking prescribed medication, while treatment with pentavalent antimonial significantly reduces the risk of death.
- * The findings suggest that improving understanding of these risk factors can enhance public health policies and epidemiological surveillance to prevent HVL-related deaths.
Objective: To analyze the temporal trend and describe the spatial distribution of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in Fortaleza from 2007 to 2017.
Methods: This was an ecological study using segmented temporal regression and thematic mapping.
Results: Between 2007-2017, 1,660 new cases and 97 deaths were confirmed.