Prevalência de internações por Febre Reumática Aguda em crianças com idade de 5 a 14 anos no Brasil nos últimos 5 anos: Um estudo transversal.

Abstract

BACKGROUNDBrazil notifies about 30,000 new cases of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) annually according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. This disease has treatment provided by the unified health system (SUS), which eradicates the infection and prevents the manifestation of rheumatic fever. However, it is known that even with the medication offered, the data from the SUS's Hospital Information System (SIH) show the opposite. Therefore, this study aims to quantitatively describe the cases of hospitalizations due to ARF in children aged 5 to 14 years in Brazil from 2016 to 2021, and to verify its prevalence, in order to analyze the epidemiological profile. MATERIALS AND METHODSThis is a cross-sectional, observational, quantitative and descriptive study, the period studied was from April 2016 to 2021. Data were obtained from (DATASUS) in the epidemiological and morbidity category. The option selected was "SUS hospital morbidity, by place of residence -Brazil, as of 2008" with national coverage by Brazilian regions. The filter for data collection in the ICD-10 morbidity list was ARF in the age group 1 and 2, from "5 to 9 years old" and from "10 to 14 years old", with an urgent care character. In addition, admissions of all networks, both genders, including all races, were considered.