Table 3.
Epidemiological clinical profile of leprosy from 2000 to 2019, according to sex, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
| Characteristics | Sex |
Total | %a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female n (%) | Male n (%) | n = 4233 | ||
| Operational classification | ||||
| Paucibacillary | 523 (12.4) | 359 (8.6) | 882 | 21.0 |
| Multibacillary | 1496 (35.6) | 1822 (43.4) | 3318 | 79.0 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 33 | ‒ |
| Clinical form | ||||
| Indeterminate | 219 (5.9) | 169 (4.6) | 388 | 10.5 |
| Tuberculoid | 313 (8.5) | 231 (6.2) | 544 | 14.7 |
| Borderline | 713 (19.2) | 680 (18.3) | 1393 | 37.5 |
| Lepromatous | 534 (14.4) | 851 (22.9) | 1385 | 37.3 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 525 | ‒ |
| Therapeutic regimen | ||||
| Multidrug therapy 6 doses MDT/PB | 510 (12.5) | 344 (8.2) | 854 | 20.4 |
| Multidrug therapy 12 doses MDT/MB | 1393 (33.2) | 1703 (40.6) | 3096 | 73.8 |
| Substitute regimens | 116 (2.8) | 130 (3.0) | 246 | 5.8 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 37 | ‒ |
| Case entry mode | ||||
| New case | 1690 (40.1) | 1752 (41.5) | 3442 | 81.6 |
| Recurrence | 149 (3.5) | 179 (4.3) | 328 | 7.8 |
| Other modes | 192 (4.6) | 255 (6.0) | 447 | 10.6 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 16 | ‒ |
| Case detection mode | ||||
| Referral | 870 (24,8) | 976 (27,8) | 1846 | 52,6 |
| Spontaneous demand | 597 (17,0) | 614 (17,5) | 1211 | 34,5 |
| Collective examination | 12 (0,4) | 22 (0,6) | 34 | 1,0 |
| Examination of contacts | 216 (6,1) | 136 (3,9) | 352 | 10,0 |
| Other modes | 30 (0,9) | 35 (1,0) | 65 | 1,9 |
| Missing data | – | – | – | |
| Assessment of the degree of physical disability | ||||
| Grade zero | 1016 (26,3) | 911 (23,5) | 1927 | 49,8 |
| Grade 1 | 622 (16,0) | 700 (18,2) | 1322 | 34,2 |
| Grade 2 | 252 (6,4) | 370 (9,6) | 622 | 16,0 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 362 | ‒ |
| Bacilloscopy | ||||
| Negative | 379 (18,1) | 302 (14,5) | 681 | 32,6 |
| Positive | 261 (12,5) | 477 (22,9) | 738 | 35,4 |
| Not performed | 311 (14,9) | 358 (17,1) | 669 | 32,0 |
| Missing data | ‒ | ‒ | 2145 | ‒ |
a
Percentages were calculated disregarding missing data.