摘要
国内外对老年人中麻风的流行情况未见系统报道,为探讨这个问题,对东台市1950年至1994年老年发病的麻风病人进行了回顾性调查,并与非老年组做了比较。资料来源于全市1950年以来麻风流行病学调查及治疗和随访的记录。
In the period of 1950 to 1994, there were 108 leprosy patients with age of over 60 years at diagnosis,being 3.9% of all the patients in Dongtai,Jiangsu.In general,these aged patients all had shorter disease duration,more skin lesions and damaged nerves with less lepra reaction and more se- vere disability at diagnosis,but relapse was less after the cure among them.
