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Pulmonary TuberculosisOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease. Approximately 9.4 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths were encountered per year worldwide.
Aims: The aim of this work is to study the relation between Addiction and the disease (tuberculosis) in Newly Diagnosed Pulmonary Patients attending to outpatient clinic or admitted to Abbasia Chest Hospital between August 2015 to April 2016.
Methodology: This is a prospective study, which was conducted upon addict patients who were diagnosed as new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (positive sputum for ZN stain) at different departments and intensive care units in Abbasia chest hospital during eight months from August 2015 to April 2016 to detect the relation between Addiction and the disease (tuberculosis).
Results: In this study, all the patients were low socioeconomic class males (31% prisoners) who were diagnosed as new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The mean of age was 33.7 years, more than half of them were single also more than half of them were sever smokers.
Conclusion: There is some degree of relationship between addiction and incidence and severity of pulmonary tuberculosis regarding radiological findings in chest X-ray, HIV infection and mortality rate among cases of the study.
Recommendations: Drug addiction is a major public health problem that needs to be studied from different aspects. Studies are needed in different regions of the community, ages, socioeconomic and educational standards, reasons for which drug addicts started addiction, awareness of health risk and the reasons for drug addiction