%0 Journal Article
%T Discapacidad en dengue y su relaci¨®n con severidad
%A Tiga Loza
%A Diana Carolina
%A Villar Centeno
%A Lu¨ªs ¨¢ngel
%A Mart¨ªnez Vega
%A Ruth Aral¨ª
%J Revista de la Universidad Industrial de Santander. Salud
%D 2011
%I Universidad Industrial de Santander
%X introduction: disability in dengue has been poorly described in the scientific literature. objectives: we described the frequency of disability in dengue and its relationship with dengue severity. materials and methods: a cohort study of patients with 48-96 hours of onset of fever followed at least until the sixth day. we evaluate disability related to activity limitation because of illness (total suspension of usual activities). results: we followed 352 patients with dengue, 324(95.05%) were disabled at anytime of follow-up, 259(73.58%) patients were disabled for at least 4 days or more from the onset. dengue cases were classified as classic in 301 (85.51%) persons and 51 (14.49%) cases as severe dengue (48 dengue haemorrhagic fever and 2 shock syndrome). the median in days of disability was 5(0-10) in classic dengue fever and 7(0-14) in severe cases (p <0.0001). the diagnosis of severe dengue was associated with a disability ¡İ4 days (rr: 1.92, ci95%: 1.11-3.31). discussion: we found a considerable disability frequency even when dengue is less severe, similar to findings in brazil, puerto rico and thailand. conclusions: the dengue disease cause disability in endemic areas and this is associated with severity. salud uis 2011; 43(1): 49-55.
%K dengue
%K disability
%K severity of illness.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-08072011000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en