Características sociais, econômicas e clínicas dos pacientes com úlceras crônicas em relação ao sexo

Abstract

Background: Chronic leg ulcer, besides biopsychosocial impact, represents a financial cost to the patients and to the health and pension systems. Recognizing factors that are related to the patients risk is a key point for their clinical approach. Objective: Evaluate the social, economic and clinical characteristics of the patients with chronic ulcer on the basis of gender in an ambulatory of a university hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional study that evaluated one hundred patients with chronic leg ulcers. Results: The average age of the group studied was 55 years, being 51% of the cases female. There wasn’t statistically significant (p < 0,05) between sociodemographic variables and gender. Among the clinic ones, systemic arterial hypertension (p = 0,04) and history of fracture (p = 0,023) has been show strong association with the chronic leg ulcer on female and male, respectively. Conclusion:Leg ulcers are a condition with a significant prevalence in world’s population, characterized by a chronic and recurrent course, and associated with many other diseases. In this study, systemic arterial hypertension and history of fracture were the factors that had a stronger association with chronic leg ulcer on the female and male, respectively.