RESUMO
The clinical features and epidemiology of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis in Guyana have been investigated. The condition is limited to East Indians and is characterised by progressive dyspnoea leading to pulmonary heart-disease and congestive heart-failure. 19 hospital patients studied, and 7 others radiographically confirmed, had all smoked "blackfat" tobacco, a variety which is not widely used.(Summary)
Assuntos
Humanos , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Masculino , Feminino , Fibrose Pulmonar/epidemiologia , Tabagismo , Tabaco , Peso Corporal , Dispneia/etiologia , Guiana , Insuficiência Cardíaca/etiologia , Fibrose Pulmonar/etiologia , Fibrose Pulmonar/diagnóstico por imagem , Doença Cardiopulmonar/etiologia , Testes de Função RespiratóriaAssuntos
Humanos , Adolescente , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Masculino , Feminino , Bronquite/epidemiologia , Dispneia/epidemiologia , Tabagismo , Fatores Etários , Doença Crônica , Jamaica , Negro ou Afro-Americano , SexoRESUMO
Over a period of 6 months a remarkable increase was seen in the incidence of acute nephritis among children in South Trinidad, and 263 cases were admitted to a general hospital. The patients were found to differ in their age, sex, and geographic distribution. The disease was associated with respiratory infection rather than skin infection, the form usually seen here, and the appearance of desquamation in many of the children suggested that the underlying organism was one capable of producing scarlet fever. The disease was mild. Only five children (1.9 percent) died, all from cardiac failure. Recovery appears so far to be complete in all but one of the survivors. (Summary)
