Aspectos epidemiológicos de sífilis em gestantes do nordeste brasileiro
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2022v12i73p9602-9617Keywords:
Sífilis, Levantamento Epidemiológico, Infecções Sexualmente TransmissíveisAbstract
Objective: To analyze the number of syphilis cases in pregnant women in Northeast Brazil. Method: Ecological study using data obtained through the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System, referring to cases of syphilis in pregnant women during the period from 2009 to 2019 in the Brazilian Northeast. Results: There were 305,383 thousand cases of gestational syphilis reported in Brazil in the analyzed period. Regarding the gestational age of diagnosis of syphilis cases in pregnant women, the present study highlighted that the highest diagnosis rate occurred in the third gestational trimester. This can be explained by the fact that most of these may be lately identified. Conclusion: the findings may mean greater risks to the mother-baby binomial, the north and northeast regions are the ones with the lowest proportion of notification at the beginning of pregnancy, a fact that highlights them with greater social vulnerability.