Epidemiological profile of meningitis in Brazil, based on data from DataSUS in the years 2020 and 2021

• Autor(a) principal: Aguiar, Tamires Saraiva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Fonseca, Michelle Carneiro, Santos, Mariana César dos, Nicoletti, Giancarlo Paiva, Alcoforado, Daniella Santos Guedes, Santos, Sueleide Cristina Dantas dos, Pontes, Maria de Lourdes, Soares, Thallyson Fellype Rangel, Marcos, Guilherme Clarindo, Teixeira, Sheilla Cristina Maia, Macedo, Beatriz Medeiros de, Medeiros, Luan Nogueira Bezerra de, Brandao, Gustavo Henrique Azevedo, Câmara, Alessandra Gurgel, Amorim, Ingrid Gurgel, Macêdo Júnior, Adriano Menino de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v11i3.27016
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/27016
• topic: Meningite; Saúde pública; Infecção; Notificação.; Meningitis; Public health; Infection; Notification.; Meningitis; Salud pública; Infección; Notificación.

Introduction: considered a disease of great relevance to Public Health, meningitis whose pathophysiological foundation is severe inflammation of the meninges. Materials and methods: descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective research carried out through SINAN in 2020 and 2021. Results: in quantitative cases, in 2021, Aseptic Meningitis (VM) presented with 42% (n= 1,938), followed by Unspecified meningitis (MNE), with 20% (n= 938) and meningitis caused by other bacteria (MB) with 17% (n= 786). And, respectively, MV=374, MNE=174 and MB=137 cases in 2021; in 2020, males had 58% (n= 2,690) of cases, females accounting for 41% (n= 1,900), respectively, 55% (n= 459), and 44% (n= 372) of meningitis cases in 2021; there were 9.71% (n= 442) of deaths, and 68.64% (n= 3,123) of discharges, in 2020. In 2021, respectively, there were 11.07% (n= 92), and 60.53 % (n=503); patients with schooling from “1st to 4th grade of EF incomplete”, “5th to 8th grade of EF incomplete” and “MS complete”, respectively, presented 4.16% (n=191), 5.59% (n=257) and 7.80% (n= 358) in 2020, in 2021, respectively, 4.45% (n= 37), 5.53% (n= 46) and 6.9% (n= 58) cases of meningitis; the age group from 20 to 39 years old, had 22.3% (n=1,026), children under 1 year old, with 22.2% (n=1,021), and from 40-59 years old, registered 17, 8% (n=819) of meningitis cases in 2020; urban area scored 87% (n= 4,012) of positive diagnoses, in rural areas, with 4.8% (n= 221), in 2020, in 2021 this information was underreported. Conclusion: It is worth mentioning the importance of the performance of multidisciplinary health teams in the treatment of meningitis cases.