Exploratory epidemiological analysis in pneumonia patients in IESS Southern Quito Hospital

Pneumonia is a public health problem worldwide due to its high mortality rate and the high costs it generates for governments, especially in underdeveloped countries. A significant increase in cases of pneumonia has been observed in IESS Southern Quito Hospital. For this reason, the objective of this study was to carry out an exploratory epidemiological and descriptive analysis of people diagnosed with pneumonia during December 2018. It will establish correlations between demographic variables such as gender, people who consume alcohol and tobacco, and quantitative variables such as vital signs, blood count, and age. For this, a principal component analysis (PCA) is carried out. Alcoholic patients have a high correlation between their neutrophils and age and a tendency to develop bacterial pneumonia. It showed us that, even though the PCA analysis does not allow us to establish causality, it gave us the guideline to investigate the existing scientific evidence and to observe that bacterial pneumonia may be associated with alcohol consumption. It was also shown that few smoking patients (4) compared to non-smokers (179), so, in that case, the conclusions obtained from this analysis would not be correct due to this great inequality in the comparison of patients. Finally, based on our analysis it cannot concluded any sex effects in the risk for pneumonia.

• Main Author: Quiroz Cabascango, Lizbeth Xiomara (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: eng
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: ACP; Correlación; Neumonía bacteriana; Neutrófilos; PCA; Correlation; Bacterial pneumonia; Neutrophils
• Online Access: http://repositorio.yachaytech.edu.ec/handle/123456789/292